The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Blockchain Series: Blog 5
MTN has piloted a mobile-based solution, mAgric, that enables agribusinesses to digitize payments to farmers. The tool currently targets farmers in the cocoa value chain, Ghana’s most important cash crop. MTN is looking to expand it to more value chains. Learn more in this GSMA video.
Kenyan AgTech company, Virtual City, has created a mobile-based tool called Agrimanagr that enables digitization of dairy value chain. It has improved payroll management and transparency and is helping farmers access financial services. Watch the video to learn more.
New research from India states that low adoption of digital payments among small retailers is not a result of supply-side barriers, such as affordability and availability. It is due to demand-side factors such as perceived aversion of customers to transact digitally.
How can platform approaches drive the digitization of cities? Learn how CIVICO and Accion are helping customers and small businesses, in Bogota, Mexico City, and Santiago, connect and transact.
2 out of 3 Mexicans now have access to formal financial products yet most of them still prefer cash. This insights2impact report suggests that to sway consumers, you have to provide them with the same convenience, flexibility, and sense of belonging as informal and social alternatives.
Read this CTA study on cash usage behaviors among cassava farmers to learn more.
Ethiopia has a sole mobile network provider and a banking sector that is closed to foreign ownership. Does that make it easy for the government to take a rural-first approach to digitization? Learn about it more in this USAIDFeed The Future brief that also mentions the Alliance.
A year and a half post demonetization, only about 5% of India’s ~60 million MSMEs own digital acceptance devices. This report provides a deeper context and recommendations on small business profiles, infrastructure, needs, behaviors, and perceptions.
This study analyzes whether mobile payments are still relevant for the fintech industry by comparing three mobile payment projects – Oi Paggo in Brazil, TCASH in Indonesia, and M-PESA in Kenya.
New data gathered from the Higg Index from 3,000 factories in 58 countries
The global economy is experiencing important technological shifts, with the rise of digital technology a key driver.
This GSMA report explores the challenges and the range of initiatives that can be implemented to address the foundational issues to digitize agricultural value chains. It is aimed at mobile operators, third-party tech providers, donors, and financial regulators.
New report underscores benefits of shifting from cash to digital payments in corporate supply chains
The National Dairy Development Board digitized its payments to dairy farmers – unlocking significant business and social benefits.
Grupo Bimbo identified digitization as a key element to help merchants remain competitive against modern retail stories in Mexico.
Gap Inc. has helped improve factory performance and promoted worker well-being by digitizing salaries for factory workers in India.
Unilever partnered with Mastercard and Kenya Commercial Bank to develop a digital working capital platform helping small merchants grow sale in Kenya, called Jaza Duka.
Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs