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 working paper discusses critical challenges in education finance and the innovations in digital finance, which plays an important role on the Sustainable Development Goal for education.
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.
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 handbook emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing and summaries standard models of various new technologies.
This report finds and discusses that contrary to a popular narrative of competition between the legacy providers and newcomers in the market, financial institutions view fintechs as great partners for innovation and envisions more such partnerships as institutions learn from successful cases.
This review provides an overview of the operations and impacts of mobile money in the developing world and discussing what the future of mobile money in developing economies may look like.
The use of digital cards for government safety net transfers enhanced women’s decision-making power in the household and led to a 92% increase in women’s likelihood of participating in the l…
At the heart of this financial transformation is the rise of digital payments services through which nearly any individual or business can send or receive money in real time for almost any p…
The paper outlines potential for growth for FinTech for financial inclusion while emphasising on the need for regulatory approaches , citing some successful cases from India , Kenya and China.
Digital Financial Services (DFS) is a relatively new, low-cost means of digital access to transactional financial services. Often termed ‘mobile money’ or ‘mobile financial services,’ DFS is…
This paper analyzes the legal framework and actual operations of fintech in Vietnam, assesses the opportunities and challenges and proposes recommendations for better application of fintech for promoting financial inclusion.
This chapter provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and discusses the empirical evidence on how the use of formal financial services significantly contribute to inclusive growth and economic development.
The paper suggests a pragmatic approach for Bangladesh to financially include the underserved through Digital financial services (DFS) by promoting interoperability.
Why should retailers shift to digital payments? An average digital payments user of Grab, a ride-hailing service, makes twice as many transactions than those who use cash and is 30% more lik…
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.
This ADBI working paper discusses measures to foster digital financial innovation in Indonesia.
A digital strategy for Ethiopia inclusive prosperity
This WEF report explores how redefining and measuring the way digital payments interact with one another can help drive economic growth and financial inclusion.
The World Economic Forum and IDB Lab explore how digital payments in Latin America & the Caribbean can continue to evolve in an open, inclusive and safe manner.
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.