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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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…
CRS Commits to Increase Electronic Payments to Strengthen Local Economies…
The following is a guest post by Sara Murray, Electronic Payments Program Manager at Mercy Corps, a Better Than Cash Alliance member….
Director-General says joining the Better Than Cash Alliance is part of stimulating more innovation and financial inclusion for smallholders
G20 EMPOWER summit ignites the vital role of digital finance in achieving gender equality
At ACDI/VOCA we see firsthand how technological innovations are revolutionizing approaches to global economic development. This is particularly true for electronic payments. Around 2.5 billi…
Globe’s subscribers can donate to the typhoon relief using their mobile phones.
New data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021 confirms the centrality of digital payments in reaching financial equality for all.
Kenya has been hailed as one of the developing world’s leaders in electronic payments. So it should come as no surprise that a sparsely populated, dusty village 500 kilometres from Nairobi i…
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 …
by Tidar Wald, Government and Corporate Relations Specialist at Better Than Cash Alliance…
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.
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
Two case studies from the Better Than Cash Alliance present innovations from Colombia’s digital payments ecosystem
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By taking cash out of the equation, electronic transfers promise a faster, more secure and more transparent (so less corruptible) means of getting help.
A third of adults struggle to get by without basic financial services to protect against hardship and save for the future. Ruth Goodwin-Groen, of the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance, expl…
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
Earlier this year, we shared the story of the World Food Programme (WFP) introducing cash transfers on mobile phones at the Gihembe refugee camp in northern Rwanda. …