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Mobile for Development Utilities Programme: The Role of Mobile in Improved Sanitation Access

This report outlines how mobile channels can support sanitation services delivery while building new engagement models and emphasizes the need of a collaborative approach to mobile technology integration, grant support for developing and piloting.
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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Mobile for Development Utilities Annual Report

What are the key barriers to success in the mobile phone-enabled utility space? In this report, GSMA shares key trends and insights from its work with more than 40 organizations operating primarily in our member countries in Africa and Asia.
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Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments and Their Impact on Income and Tax Revenue Around the World

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.
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Government targets higher adoption of FASTag

In a bid to promote adoption of FASTag, e-toll collection system, the Indian Government is planning to impose a double toll fee if non-FASTag vehicles enter the FASTag lane.

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Digital Finance and Sustainable Water Service for all

The brief examines specific barriers to access and sustainability in the water sector, and discusses channels through which DFS can help providers overcome those barriers.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Inclusive Growth: The Global Challenges of Social Inequality and Financial Inclusion

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.
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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Testing the Waters: Digital Payments for Water and Sanitation

Water providers are shifting to digital payments to reduce expenses and streamline delivery. In this report, CGAP and GSMA share lessons learned from 25 organizations, including the challeng…
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Mobile banking in the government-to-person payment sector for financial inclusion in Pakistan

Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, this paper critically examines mobile banking usage by women beneficiaries and technology’s effects on the institutional properties of their households.

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Is mobile payment still relevant in the fintech era?

This study analyzes whether mobile payments are still relevant for the fintech industry by comparing three mobile payment projects – Oi Paggo in Brazil, TCASH in Indonesia, and M-PESA in Kenya.

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Next Steps for the Digital Revolution in Africa: Inclusive Growth and Job Creation Lessons from Kenya

This paper provides examples of how digitization in Kenya has supported the economy via a retail electronic payments system, financial inclusion, increased financial sector vibrancy, and pushed GDP growth with it.

© © Mastercard
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Global Microscope 2018: The Enabling Environment for Financial Inclusion

It sets a model for an enabling environment for financial inclusion across five domains: 1. Government and Policy Support; 2. Stability and Integrity; 3. Products and Outlets; 4. Consumer Pr…
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Bridging the Digital Divide and Supporting Increased Digital Trade: Scoping Study

The global economy is experiencing important technological shifts, with the rise of digital technology a key driver. This can be seen today in the rapid growth of the digital economy, broadl…
© © SAIIA
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One token changing the game for sustainable rural water supply in Tanzania

A water payment’s digitization project resulted in tripling water utility payments and reducing water collection waiting time from 3 hour to 10 minutes on average within a year, benefitting …
© © eWaterPay | WaterAid.org, Priya Sippy
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A Case Study on Monetary Fraud in a Cashless Economy

A case study on three countries Sweden, United States and India is conducted to survey variations in costs for cash and card instruments in economies that have varying extents of cash in cir…
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Bringing E-money to the Poor: Successes and Failures

This report examines the successful lessons from Kenya, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Thailand case studies of “gazelles", that leapt from limitation to innovation by successfully enabling the deployment of e-money technology.

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Branchless Banking in Pakistan: Opportunities and Challenges

The paper examines strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of branchless banking and recommends some strategies around the identified challenges with a focus on Pakistan.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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Accelerating Financial Inclusion in South-East Asia with Digital Finance

Focussing on women, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the paper highlights that digital financial solutions could play a significant part in closing gaps in financial inclusion and povides insights from Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar.

© © 2017 Asian Development Bank
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Decade Edition of the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money

The report charts the story of mobile money covering a decade of progress, industry lessons,impact and the future of the industry.
© © GSMA
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Mobile Banking Operations and Banking Facilities to Rural People in Bangladesh

The paper estabishes that mobile applications are well positioned in Bangladesh’s m-commerce market and are capable of driving sales of high-end mobile phones while providing better services to the users.
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The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money

The report studies the adoption of Mobile money in Kenya and highlights how Mobile money has resulted in reduction of poverty in Kenya.