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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An article by McKinsey that explores which digital payments models are best placed to gain momentum in emerging markets and what innovations may lie on the horizon.
Water providers are shifting to digital payments to reduce expenses and streamline delivery. In this report, CGAP and GSMA share lessons learned from 25 organizations, including the challeng…
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.
Everything from the range of goods and services we buy to how we buy them has drastically shifted toward digital, bringing significant benefits to consumers, businesses and economies. As the…
The brief examines specific barriers to access and sustainability in the water sector, and discusses channels through which DFS can help providers overcome those barriers.
The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk.
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 Global Payment Systems Survey (GPSS) covers cross-country comparisons and assess progress in national payments system development. The latest iteration (2018) shows the number of cashless transactions per capita per year (globally) increased by 25% as compared to 2015.
The report establishes how the mobile industry impacts the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a set of commitments that will ensure that the SDGs are an enduring influence on our industry’s roadmap.
This brief elucidates how digital finance is enabling pay-as you-go (PAYG) energy expansion, which delivers greater access to wide-ranging financial products to the unbanked. It discusses the evidence from Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana.
The study provides emperical evidence of how the expansion of electronic payments has a significant, positive effect on future economic growth.
The report attempts to understand, for India, the factors that drive awareness and interest among current non-users of digital payments, analyze the experience of existing users and identify potential strategies to spur the adoption of digital payments among these consumers and merchants
USAID has commissioned this study to understand the perceptions towards digital payments among consumers and merchants in low-income communities. The research provides key findings from quantitative surveys carried out in Indian cities- Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kota, Vishakhapatnam, Guntur and Jaunpur,
A study by Moody’s Analytics that looked at the impact of increased card penetration on the private consumption of 56 countries over five years.
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This document describes four case studies on the use of mobile money in Kenya, covering use by a government ministry (The Ministry of Lands), an NGO implementing partner of USAID (PACT), a g…