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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.

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Alliance Report

The Hidden Costs of Cash to Ghana’s Cocoa Sector

New report reveals the cocoa sector in Ghana faces avoidable costs and inefficiencies representing 19% of revenues
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Alliance Report

Digitizing Payments in Ghana’s Cocoa Supply Chain

Four building blocks for responsible and scalable digitization
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Alliance Report

Country Diagnostic: Viet Nam

Digital payments enable inclusive growth and advance the Sustainable Development Goals, through cost savings, increased transparency, financial inclusion and greater women’s economic participation.

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In Bangladesh, key public and private sector actors commit to scaling digital wages across garment sector

Dhaka, November 20, 2019 - Media release by Government of Bangladesh: Building on what has been achieved so far, the government and the private sector have committed to working together to solve the challenges in ensuring all garment factories pay their workers digitally. The decision came from the Bangladesh Digital Wages Summit, which convened on 20 November in Dhaka.

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Ideas & Updates

Call to action: Digitizing workers’ payments in the garment sector in Bangladesh

Leading brands call on other companies and suppliers in Bangladesh to grasp the opportunity to drive inclusion, efficiency, and transparency through wage digitization
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Industry Report

Blockchain and supply chain management integration: a systematic review of the literature

This paper aims to identify, analyse and organise the literature about blockchains in supply chain management (SCM) context (blockchain–SCM integration) and proposes an agenda for future research.
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Blockchain: Cutting through the noise

Introduction: Framing of our blog series on distributed ledger technology
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Distributed Ledger Technology: What Is It and Why Do We Care?

Blockchain Series: Blog 1
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Ideas & Updates

Distributed Ledgers: Looking Past the Hype

Blockchain Series: Blog 2
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Ideas & Updates

DLT: Keep Calm and Let the Evidence Speak

Blockchain Series: Blog 3
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Ideas & Updates

Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls Ahead

Blockchain Series: Blog 4
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Ideas & Updates

Distributing Production: Can Distributed Ledgers Fuel a New Wave of Supply-Chain Innovation?

Blockchain Series: Blog 5
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Paying Across Borders: Can Distributed Ledgers Bring Us Closer Together?

Blockchain Series: Blog 6
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Bringing efficiency to Kenya’s dairy value chain: Virtual City’s Agrimanagr

Kenyan AgTech company, Virtual City, has created a mobile-based tool called Agrimanagr that enables digitization of dairy value chain. It has improved payroll management and transparency and is helping farmers access financial services. Watch the video to learn more.
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Numérisation des paiement: Atelier de prevalidation du rapport provisoire d'étude
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Marks & Spencer Joins the Better Than Cash Alliance on International Women’s Day

This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining the Better Than Cash Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals. By promoting digital wages across its supply chain, M&S aims to give more women the ability to take control of their finances.
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Industry Report

Cash usage behaviour and its implication for digital payments: A case of Ghana and Nigeria's smallholder cassava value chain

Read this CTA study on cash usage behaviors among cassava farmers to learn more.
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How digitized supply chain finance can help small merchants grow Toolkit

This guide is for institutions interested in developing a supply chain finance solution.

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Ideas & Updates

New Key to Help Unlock the Power of Digital Payments

Across the global policy community, the jury is now in about the power of digital payments to drive financial inclusion, particularly for women and the poor; improve efficiency and transparency in business and government; and support new economic opportunities. However, there is no consensus around the specific policy mix that will enable this potential to be fully realized.
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