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 document analyzes the enhancement of social protection systems in the Caribbean through inclusive digital payments, focusing on user-centered design and extensive consultations with local populations.
The report assesses the landscape of 32 instant payment systems in Africa, measuring their performance on criteria such as interoperability, use cases, channels, and governance.
The survey identifies current public development banks practices, trends and innovations in financing programs targeting women’s financial inclusion.
This brief reviews the use of digital technology in G2P payments to women in India.
This paper outlines how inclusive green finance policies can enhance financial stability by creating a more resilient real economy and reducing risks.
This brief offers actionable recommendations for the key steps that policymakers and other stakeholders can take to prioritize women in their efforts toward digital financial inclusion.
This paper reviews the current landscape of funders, academic research, and financial service providers working on the intersection of gender, climate change, and financial inclusion.
This report introduces five global databases covering account ownership, payments, digital adoption, trust, and the digital gender gap. It suggests data gaps and indicators helpful in fostering evidence-based policymaking.
Report on Paraguay’s COVID-19 policy response, digital financial services, and women’s financial inclusion.
A review of the main fintech payment models and a debate on the operational and financial risks as well as challenges they face.
Robust digital infrastructure, including internet connectivity and identification, encourages digital financial transactions.
A resource on how to design a digital currency that expands financial inclusion and operates in the public interest rather than one that exacerbates or even creates a new digital divide for currency.
This publication disseminates initiatives in the financial sector to adapt to aging to encourage other financial entities to develop solutions that make it possible to overcome the “financial non-exclusion” of the elderly.
A toolkit for policymakers and regulators to formulate, design, and implement gender-transformative policies for financial products and services.
This special report provides high-level policy recommendations to advance financial inclusion for forcibly displaced women.
This IFC and We-Fi learning brief introduces how gender equality can be advanced within the distribution activities of the FMCG sector.
World Bank’s Global Findex is a definitive source on access to financial services. 2021 findings show the account ownership gender gap has narrowed globally.
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 explores implications of financial services’ digital transformation for market outcomes - and regulation and supervision - and how these interact.
CGAP’s Market Monitoring Toolkit aims to help financial and consumer protection supervisors spot and act on new and evolving consumer risks promptly.