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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World Bank joined hands with IFC on a project for digitizing and modernizing Côte d’Ivoire’s social protection payments. Results show a reduction in administrative costs and better targeting of beneficiaries.
The participation of many underprivileged social clusters in the financial services sector has invariably been problematic in South Africa. This may be attributed to the country’s laws and p…
The book outlines a journey from enabling models of government and business to strategies for creating both financial and social inclusion and entrepreneurism as mechanisms for sustainable and inclusive growth.
Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, the paper investigates how the adoption of mobile phones enabled and constrained poor women for receiving G2P payments and its impact on poor households.
The UNDP report analyzes the recent growth across three foundational dimensions of social assistance in the continent - legal frameworks, institutions and financing.
This paper looks at the impact of shifting to digital payments in Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme.
Buckinghamshire County Council discusses the case how they provided access to leisure and positive activities for children and young people through prepaid cards, reacheing over 80 percent within 15 months into the program.
This guidance note outlines the most significant challenges that MNOs face (or likely to face) in the context of supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance in a COVID-19 world and offers relevant recommendations to governments on how to help address or mitigate these challenges.
The State of Maryland needed a faster, more reliable and more cost effective way of making unemployment benefit payments to citizens who depended on them.
The State’s original process was…
Hghlights how Citi Prepaid Services for IOM beneficiaries resulted in reduced costs, detailed payment reports, as well as greater control and transparency.
This blog, focussing on case of Liberia, discusses how digital payments are improving government service delivery and leading to higher take-home pay and improved transparency.
This article situates latest trends within the evolution of Indian and Mexican social policies and discusses how on one hand financial inclusion policies allow vulnerable populations to access new rights while resulting in new ways of controlling consumer behavior.
This paper evaluates the effect on household savings of India’s recent financial inclusion drive, a drive that generated an unprecedented increase in access to financial institutions by usin…
This paper traces the history of mobile banking in Pakistan, studies various models of mobile banking and assesses its current state.
This study analysis the emerging legal and regulatory issues that mobile payments introduced in Kenya.
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 undertakes a systematic review of key literature and identifies areas for further research and opportunities in the field of gender and financial inclusion, particularly digital financial inclusion.
Based on a sample of 62 developing countries, the paper provides empirical analysis showing increase in the use of FinTech has a positive effect on the level of financial inclusion, which in turn advance sustainable economic development.
“The paper evaluates the level of financial inclusion in Republic of Macedonia through analazysis of indicators in some basic categories like number of accounts, borrowed funds and payment services. ”
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.