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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New Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion Advocacy Hub to Champion Equal Access to Digital Financial Services for Women.
India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) joins the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance
A 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to prioritize women’s digital financial inclusion
As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8th, Women’s World Banking reflects on a learning exchange with three African banks committed to serving low-income women….
This two-minute video from the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance is about Romita, a widow in the North East of India who opened a bank account to receive a government loan for a power loom.
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining the Better Than Cash Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
A 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to rebuild stronger after COVID-19 by prioritizing women’s digital financial inclusion
A report by the World Bank Development Research Group, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking to the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
Payday can be an ordeal for women garment workers in Bangladesh. Often, they must wait in long lines, carry wads of cash through crowded streets, or encounter a mother-in-law demanding money…
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
It’s hard to imagine a more explosive, transformative, and empowering trend than the growth of the mobile phone sector in Africa.
G20 EMPOWER summit ignites the vital role of digital finance in achieving gender equality
Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog
This is the first in a series of articles on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members…
This blog post was originally published on Gallup.com
by Emilia Klimiuk and Lisa Kienzle of Grameen Foundation
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
This report from IFC, the 1st large-scale use of platform data in the region, shows that growth could be higher with greater investment in women entrepreneurs.
Project Kirana is currently training 3,000 women shop owners and managers in the cities of Lucknow and Kanpur.