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 participation of many underprivileged social clusters in the financial services sector has invariably been problematic in South Africa. This may be attributed to the country’s laws and p…
For Nigeria to see broad adoption of digital payments it must find ways to encourage merchants and consumers to adopt them across a range of payment use cases. This pilot study by insight2impact highlights how transactional data can support an evidence-led strategy for digital adoption.
This blog, focussing on case of Liberia, discusses how digital payments are improving government service delivery and leading to higher take-home pay and improved transparency.
The paper studies the incidence of new mobile money excise duties on the adoption of electronic money.
Focussing on women, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the paper highlights that digital financial solutions could play a significant part in closing gaps in financial inclusion and povides insights from Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
This report identifies critical gaps and opportunities for the cashless economies to increase financial inclusion for MSMs aand provides some interseting insights from successful cases from sevral countries including Indonesia, Peru and Nigeria.
The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL)‘s National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2026 prioritizes women, youth, rural populations and MSMEs.
CGAP’s Market Monitoring Toolkit aims to help financial and consumer protection supervisors spot and act on new and evolving consumer risks promptly.
This report identifies critical barriers to the expansion of electronic payment acceptance and effective ways to address the challenges of building the ecosystem for payment acceptance among SMBs.
This paper looks at the impact of shifting to digital payments in Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme.
The promotion of formal financial systems and services is central to any effective and comprehensive AML/CFT regime. However, applying an overly cautious approach to AML/CFT safeguards can h…
Using various global datasets, this study quantifies the effect of financial inclusion and digital payments on income and individual government tax revenues to be an additional $4.1 trillion in the world economy.
The report attempts to understand the factors that drive awareness and interest among current non-users of digital payments in India and analyzes the experience of current users and dentify potential strategies to spur the adoption among these consumers and merchants.
The Ghana Digital Payments Roadmap is designed to chart the way to a vibrant and inclusive digital payments ecosystem.
“The paper evaluates the level of financial inclusion in Republic of Macedonia through analazysis of indicators in some basic categories like number of accounts, borrowed funds and payment services. ”
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A toolkit for policymakers and regulators to formulate, design, and implement gender-transformative policies for financial products and services.
The market- building approach discuses the virtous cycle tied to digital payment platforms proliferate, increase in value proposition, a broad customer base and yet more innovative services tailored to the needs of people previously unbanked.