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LEARNING SERIES >> What will it take for small merchants to embrace digital payments?

Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.

LEARNING SERIES >> Working together to prioritize merchant payment digitization and co-create solutions

Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.

Financial Access Survey: 2021 Trends and Developments

The twelfth annual Financial Access Survey (FAS) reveals considerable expansion in the usage of digital financial services during COVID-19.

Innovating Digital Financial Services for Posts

Innovating Digital Financial Services for Posts

Digital Finance for Climate Resilience (DF4CR): A Framework for Action

Catalyzing an ecosystem for action to address the impacts of climate change among the world’s most vulnerable

Launching the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments

Building trust, mitigating risks and driving inclusive economies

Developing Inclusive Digital Payment Systems

This report from Centre for Strategic and International Studies makes a strong case for digital payments for equity, development and security.

This is the main barrier stopping female merchants from using digital payments

Trust can conquer the final frontier in digitisation where women merchants can lead it

Responsible Digitization of Women Merchants in Rural India for COVID-19 Recovery

10 recommendations from civil society to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization and further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

What are the challenges and opportunities of responsibly digitizing humanitarian payments?

Our latest report guides humanitarians to assess if and how digital payments can be effective

UNCDF 2020 Annual Report

‘Harnessing the true power of capital: Unlocking the growth potential of the last mile’, details recent achievements and future challenges in accelerating SDG achievement in LDCs.

UNCDF: Inclusive Digital Economies and Gender Equality Playbook

A practical guide to leveraging a market system development approach to decrease the digital and financial gender divide.

Open source in government: creating the conditions for success

Open source software can be a powerful tool in responsibly building digital economies. Public Digitals’s latest research outlining conditions for success for governments looking to adopt the technology.

Mastercard: Reimagining support for small businesses

Mastercard & Kearney explore the path to creating stronger, more resilient small businesses through and beyond COVID-19.

GSMA: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021 highlights how the mobile gender gap continues to improve in South Asia, but less so in other regions.

World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives

The latest edition of the World Development Report from the World Bank provides a blueprint on how to harness the power of data for development, to ensure no one is left behind.

Visa: Understanding Obstacles Facing Small and Micro Business Owners

This study by Visa provides insights into the benefits of digital payments for micro and small businesses in India, Indonesia, Mexico and Nigeria.

COVID-19 Payments: Managing Risks, Ensuring Women’s Inclusion, and Communicating Clearly