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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Digital payments can help make the sector more efficient, transparent, and secure for companies and people alike
COVID-19 is causing unprecedented health, economic and social crises and threatens the poverty and inclusion gains that have been made over the last decade.
The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.
This webinar responds to the question of how governments and humanitarian agencies can manage the risks associated with COVID-19 response payments, ensure women’s inclusion, and improve communications with recipients.
Over the past two decades, Indonesia has been working to modernize its tax system through a wide range of digitalization initiatives.
Rwanda’s impressive economic and social record in recent decades has become one of the success stories of modern African development.
Mexico has been among the forerunners in tax digitalization, starting in the 1980s when it piloted digital Point of Sale (PoS) registration and invoicing.
This report presents a powerful new demonstration of how digital payments can transform millions of lives for the better.
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Four building blocks for responsible and scalable digitization
Opening new payment gateways for merchants presents risks but much greater opportunities. Striking the right balance between fostering innovative services and managing risk is crucial.
As part of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, governments are taking urgent measures to digitally pay health workers and vulnerable people. The Better Than Cash Alliance hosted a webinar to highlight key lessons from Sierra Leone's use of digital payments in their Ebola response, which shaped the outcome of the crisis in West Africa. The webinar outlined key takeaways on how governments could solve the challenges emerging from the COVID-19 crisis: - Keeping the digital payments ecosystem functioning and safe. - Delivering payments to health workers and, where possible, to affected families effectively. - Providing beneficiaries with the right information about these payments. For more information, please check out our case study “Saving Money, Saving Lives: A Case Study on the Benefits of Digitizing Payments to Ebola Response Workers in Sierra Leone.” http://ow.ly/SQAd30izODF