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Achieving Decent Work and Economic Growth by 2030: How Are Companies Making a Difference Through Payment Digitization?

Igniting women-led development with inclusive digital finance: G20 EMPOWER summit resounding appeal

G20 EMPOWER summit ignites the vital role of digital finance in achieving gender equality

Our work in India

Read about India’s transformational journey to scale responsible digital payments

New evidence > Responsible digital financial inclusion is driving SDG progress

Digital financial inclusion offers real hope to help us get back to achieving the SDGs by 2030

Colombia: Innovations in the delivery of Ingreso Solidario

Learning webinar highlights #highlights

LEARNING SERIES >> Our learnings from digitizing P2G payments in a customer-centric way

Successful digitization of P2G payments and its widespread adoption by users is achievable - but depends on the alignment of various important factors.

LEARNING SERIES >> What will it take for small merchants to embrace digital payments?

Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.

Colombia’s Ingreso Solidario: Public-private Collaboration In Covid-19 Emergency Payments Response

Ingreso Solidario is a COVID-19 social protection programme in Colombia benefitting 3 million households. It shows digital payments can be rapidly dispersed across multiple channels.

Generating potential government cost savings of US$1.1 billion

The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have been severely affected by COVID-19, with a regional GDP contraction of 6.7%** according to the World Bank.

Maximizing Government Cost Savings

Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery

World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives

The latest edition of the World Development Report from the World Bank provides a blueprint on how to harness the power of data for development, to ensure no one is left behind.

VoxDev Lit: Mobile Money (literature review) Toolkit

Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.

Accelerating responsible digital payments for COVID-19 relief

The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the Sustainable Development Goals within reach

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: The Impact of Mobile Money on Poverty Toolkit

Mobile money accounts have spread widely in select regions of the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Research Brief focuses on the individual and household impacts of mobile money.

COVID-19 Exclusion Working Group (Gender) – Introduction and Strategic Enablers for Digital Payments Toolkit

COVID-19 is causing unprecedented health, economic and social crises and threatens the poverty and inclusion gains that have been made over the last decade.

Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers Toolkit

The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.

Digitising tax could raise $300bn annually for developing counties, says report

Tax Digitalization in Mexico: Success Factors and Pathways Forward

Mexico has been among the forerunners in tax digitalization, starting in the 1980s when it piloted digital Point of Sale (PoS) registration and invoicing.

Sudan embraces digital payments to build a more inclusive economy

Sudan Joins United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to Drive Financial Inclusion and Transparency