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 following is a guest post by Sara Murray, Electronic Payments Program Manager at Mercy Corps, a Better Than Cash Alliance member….
Jordan demonstrates leadership by taking on the wage digitization agenda to advance decent work and inclusive economic growth
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Pledges to Improve Access to Finance and Markets for the Poor by Supporting Shift to Electronic Payments…
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, the Better Than Cash Alliance hosted a roundtable discussion with Juan Jiménez Mayor, Prime Minister, Republic…
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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.
Today, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, joined The Better Than Cash Alliance, committing to boost the use of digital payments to improve programme delivery, by generating cost savi…
Many Ivoirians were concerned that the 2015 presidential elections would lead to renewed conflict, particularly after the violence surrounding the elections of 2010. …
The organization joins a UN-hosted alliance of governments, companies and international organizations to accelerate the move towards digitization of payments
Communiqué de presse de l’Agence de la Couverture Maladie Universelle du Sénégal (ACMU)…
In key move to recover from the economic impact of the Ebola crisis, Nation joins the Better Than Cash Alliance
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
Beneficiaries received electronic transfers via mobile savings accounts
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.
By taking cash out of the equation, electronic transfers promise a faster, more secure and more transparent (so less corruptible) means of getting help.