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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With 37 percent of the value of all payments now made digitally, Ghana is on course to be a leader in the region, with great potential to expand economic opportunities for businesses
In wealthy countries, most people conduct their financial activity in digital form; money and value is stored virtually and transferred instantaneously with a touch of a button.
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Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’…
Digital initiative aimed at helping world’s poor…
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Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development joins Better Than Cash Alliance to bring financial inclusion to rural communities
Government of India joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to share success stories from the world’s largest financial inclusion programme…
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…
Sudan Joins United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to Drive Financial Inclusion and Transparency
Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)
Ingreso Solidario is a COVID-19 social protection programme in Colombia benefitting 3 million households. It shows digital payments can be rapidly dispersed across multiple channels.
Sierra Leone’s experience shows the critical importance of preparing early for digital payments before crises hit.
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. …
Originally published on CGAP.org
Findings illustrate how the private and public sector could work together to modernize economies, improve transparency and support financial inclusion and growth.
By Jeffrey Bower, Digital Finance Specialist, Better Than Cash Alliance …
Crossposted from the original post that appeared in The Economist Intelligence Unit…
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