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China Breakthroughs: Pay it forward on cashless society

Better Than Cash Alliance lauds India’s push for digital payments, Aadhaar

How digital wage payments can deepen social inclusion

Ethiopia’s digital payment gateway

La Côte d’Ivoire, leader des paiements marchands digitaux dans l’UEMOA et chantre de l’inclusion financière des femmes

Le Gouvernement ivoirien dévoile son nouveau guide d’orientation pour stimuler les paiements marchands digitaux de manière responsable, l’inclusion financièrej et la croissance

First look at how garment workers are being paid globally

In a first study of its kind, data from nearly 3,000 factories across 58 countries, reveals that paying workers digitally correlates positively with better working conditions.

Tidhar Wald discusses India’s success in promoting digital payments

Shining a Bright Light on the Role of Digital Payments in Expanding Energy for All

Senegal: Digitizing payments could add FCFA 104 billion to GDP every year (CNBC)

Alipay, WeChat Near $3 Trillion

Ethiopia Maps Out Digital Payment Strategy

Senegal: Digitizing payments could add FCFA 104 billion to GDP every year

Bangladesh launches vision to scale responsible digital payments by 2025

Inclusive digital payments solutions for the garment sector workers in Bangladesh

Leveraging Digital Financial Solutions to Promote Formal Business Participation

This paper explores economic informality and how it relates to digital financial inclusion. It focuses specifically on the potential role that digital financial services–including those accessed through mobile phones and the internet can play in encouraging businesses to formalize their operations.

Mobile-delivered economic ID for inclusion of SMEs

Unregistered SMEs account for 65% of Nigeria’s GDP. Most of them often struggle to demonstrate their personal and business credentials to service providers and customers. This GSMA research finds that there is a need for new approaches to identity and mobile-delivered ‘economic ID’ solution holds promise.

Digital payments may help solve challenges

Report of the High-level committee on deepening of digital payments

Nandan Nilekani-led high-level panel submitted its report on deepening digital payments in India. It calls for pivoting the ecosystem from issuance to acceptance and shares practical recommendations for doing that. The report refers to 6 Alliance publications.