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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International Women’s Day Edition
H&M group becomes the first global fashion brand to join the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance…
Payday can be an ordeal for women garment workers in Bangladesh. Often, they must wait in long lines, carry wads of cash through crowded streets, or encounter a mother-in-law demanding money…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
Findings illustrate how the private and public sector could work together to modernize economies, improve transparency and support financial inclusion and growth.
The report establishes how the mobile industry impacts the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a set of commitments that will ensure that the SDGs are an enduring influence on our industry’s roadmap.
One of the largest economies in Latin America keeps growth momentum going by joining the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to foster a financially inclusive economy
The ability to make and receive payments electronically has emerged, in recent years, as a technology hero during natural disasters and health pandemics. At a time when more people than ever…
Sierra Leone’s experience shows the critical importance of preparing early for digital payments before crises hit.
Today, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, joined The Better Than Cash Alliance, committing to boost the use of digital payments to improve programme delivery, by generating cost savi…
Did you ever wonder why there is not an International Men’s Day? There actually is such a day, by the way—it’s on November 19th, but there aren’t too many people marking it with a night off …
The Alliance contributed to the launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to 5 million Peruvians over 5 years.
This Guidebook provides an easy-to-use tool to understand how digital finance is helping addressing some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers and includes some interesting use cases from Bangladesh, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
By BTCA Communications Team…
Farmers are adapting mobile technology to meet market needs and drive progress on their own terms rather than waiting for telecommunications companies to deliver solutions…
This blog post was originally published on Gallup.com
A report by the World Bank Development Research Group, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking to the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
By Jeffrey Bower, Digital Finance Specialist, Better Than Cash Alliance …
The Republic of Moldova has joined the UN-housed Better Than Cash Alliance to make digital payments for all public services a reality by 2020. …