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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This webinar demonstrated how integrating the Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines in payment responses is possible at a time like this, and why it is an important building block for recovery.
The purpose of this working paper is to set out the key components and stakeholders in a digital payments ecosystem (DPE).
Government, private sector, mobile operators and development organizations convene to establish a plan for the future…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
On 19 August 2015, the Reserve Bank of India approved licenses for eleven institutions to set up payment banks. The purpose was to have these banks further financial inclusion by providing s…
Transportation Series: Blog 1 (Introduction)…
Payday can be an ordeal for women garment workers in Bangladesh. Often, they must wait in long lines, carry wads of cash through crowded streets, or encounter a mother-in-law demanding money…
By Jeffrey Bower, Digital Finance Specialist, Better Than Cash Alliance …
This case study explores the factors both supporting and impeding the widespread adoption of Person-to-Government (P2G) and Business-to-Government (B2G) payments in Tanzania, focusing on the period from 2012 to 2016.
This study examines the three shifts to electronic payments and aggregates the findings of a range of studies about the benefits of electronic payment adoption.
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
In looking at ways to bring financial services to the more than two billion people outside formal financial systems, often the focus has been on piecemeal efforts to improve specific element…
McLeod Russel Uganda (MRUL) cut costs and increased financial inclusion for workers after transitioning to a secure mobile payment system in Uganda.
At the Better Than Cash Alliance Secretariat we are starting to think what responsible digital payments mean for our members and stakeholders and want to ask your opinion.
March 2014 newsletter, What Can Experiences in Haiti, Kenya, the Philippines & Uganda Teach Us About G2P & D2P E-Payments?, Remote communities in Ghana bank on mobiles, Does gender impact access to mobile financial services?
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
The Government of Papua New Guinea joined the Better Than Cash Alliance and committed to digitizing all government payments.
The Tanzanian President, Finance Ministers and high level delegates from Peru, Indonesia, Colombia, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Belgium, and South Africa are leading SDG progress by digitizing payments and accelerating financial inclusion.
A new animation and working paper, developed by the Alliance, seek to better explain what inclusive digital payment ecosystems are
500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments