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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By taking cash out of the equation, electronic transfers promise a faster, more secure and more transparent (so less corruptible) means of getting help.
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
Beneficiaries received electronic transfers via mobile savings accounts
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
In key move to recover from the economic impact of the Ebola crisis, Nation joins the Better Than Cash Alliance
The organization joins a UN-hosted alliance of governments, companies and international organizations to accelerate the move towards digitization of payments
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As world leaders met at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, many discussions focused on how to ignite greater progress toward the SDGs.