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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Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, the paper investigates how the adoption of mobile phones enabled and constrained poor women for receiving G2P payments and its impact on poor households.
The aim of the paper is to bridge the theoretical and methodological gap to evaluate how the social construction of m-banking enables and constrains poor women to access G2P payments in Pakistan.
Through an extensive literature review, the paper provides evidence about role of mobile banking as well as branchless banking is significant for women entrepreneur’s empowerment, especially for financially including them.
This report is based on primary research on agriculture mobile payments initiatives in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia with the aim of understanding the potential of mobile finance for the agricultural sector and how these barriers might be overcome.
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The paper summarizes existing e-information services in India and discusses some of the main factors limiting access to information services such as irrelevant information, high level of illiteracy, unaffordable etc
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.
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 …
This brief elucidates how digital finance is enabling pay-as you-go (PAYG) energy expansion, which delivers greater access to wide-ranging financial products to the unbanked. It discusses the evidence from Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana.
The report provides evidence on how financial inclusion facilitates various Sustainable Development Goals and highlughts how governments have been able to significantly reduce cost and leakages.
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…
Sierra Leone’s experience shows the critical importance of preparing early for digital payments before crises hit.
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…
Originally published on CGAP.org
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
This review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme shares best practices and challenges from initiatives implemented in areas related to productive capacity, infrastructure and energy, agriculture, food security and nutrition and rural development, economy, trade, etc
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.