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 USAID guide aims to: 1) illustrate how investments in ID systems impact individuals and their households; and 2) provide specific how-to guidance to help donors, program managers, and M&E specialists get started in thinking about ID ecosystems.
The report makes recommendations for government in india to shape policy that simplifies KYC requirements, making digital payment transactions more user friendly.
Focussing on women, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the paper highlights that digital financial solutions could play a significant part in closing gaps in financial inclusion and povides insights from Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
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.
This CG Dev paper, by Professor Njuguna Ndung’u, shows how M-Pesa’s success has led to a series of endogenous innovations that have shaped Kenya’s digital space. It outlines several important challenges that Kenya will need to address in order to further consolidate its success, including connectivity issues, digital ID, interoperability and consumer protection.
In this report, McKinsey Global Institute discusses the opportunities and challenges in setting up a good digital ID system. It also features case studies on Nigeria, Ethiopia and India. …
This book defines digital ecosystems with examples from real industry cases and explores how enterprise architecture is evolving to enable physical and virtual, social, and material object collaboration and experience.
A digital strategy for Ethiopia inclusive prosperity
We are living in a scenario of technology and digital world. Digital world comprises of digital techniques. Government has dreamed to transform India into Techno-Knowledge based India. Gover…
Today, over half of the world population lives in cities. By 2050, this number will increase to two-thirds. In this context, this study looks at the net benefits associated with adopting digital payments at the city-level.
Analyzing the Gender Digital Divide with country examples/data from India, Senegal & Indonesia
The global economy is experiencing important technological shifts, with the rise of digital technology a key driver. This can be seen today in the rapid growth of the digital economy, broadl…
A list of examples of how digital public infrastructure (DPI) can accelerate the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals.
This paper explores factors that have driven the adoption of digital payments in India by beneficiaries of PMGKY, the large-scale COVID-19 relief program.
This report provides insights from the Digital Money Index, which tracks the development of digital money readiness in 84 countries. It shows a 5.5% improvement in overall digital money readiness over the last five years.
This Guidebook provides an easy-to-use tool to understand how digital finance is helping addressing some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers and includes some interesting use cases from Bangladesh, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
This CGAP blog dicsusses the successful cases of public-private partnerships to drive various digitiziation initiatives in Rwanda. One of those being ‘Rwanda Online’, which has brought 100 government services online over a period of three years and the digitization of bus fare payments in the same.
This report discusses Tienda Pago’s Digital Solution for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods.
Kenya’s “Digital Economy Blueprint” provides a conceptual framework for setting up a successful digital economy in the country. The document identifies and explores five pillars of focus and is relevant for our work not just in Kenya but across Africa.
This report from Centre for Strategic and International Studies makes a strong case for digital payments for equity, development and security.