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 purpose of this working paper is to set out the key components and stakeholders in a digital payments ecosystem (DPE).
Around the world, 2.5 billion people lack access to formal financial services….
The study looks at how development organizations or government programs can increase the efficiency and scale of transfers, while also forming the building blocks for financial inclusion.
This diagnostic report shows that Senegal has a strong potential for digitizing payments.
This paper, jointly released by the Better Than Cash Alliance and the World Bank, summarizes and analyzes the financial challenges faced by older adults.
Distributing benefits, such as child support, unemployment and disability assistance, has been transformed by the use of prepaid cards. Instead of mailing paper checks, 40 states now use Vis…
Millions of people in the Dominican Republic struggle with poverty and hunger. In the past, distributing food, fuel and medicine was slow, expensive and often didn’t reach the intended recip…
The toolkit provides a comprehensive view of scale and nature of Mobile money opportunities; strategic considerations around interoperability and enabling third parties; further providing some insights and best practices around the same.
The report finds that infrastructure is one of the most critical parts of delivering electronic payments and also remains woefully lacking. At present about 43 percent of all consumer payments are made with cash.
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
The Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) is supporting the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) work with the authorities in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to coordinate payments for thousands of treatment centre staff, lab technicians, contacts tracers and burial teams.
This study lays the foundation for incorporating United Nations Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in the Rwandan tea sector, with the goal of increasing efficiency and improving farmers’ living incomes.
In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.