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 report underscores benefits of shifting from cash to digital payments in corporate supply chains.
Gap Inc. has helped improve factory performance and promoted worker well-being by digitizing salaries for factory workers in India.
The purpose of this report is to share key lessons and tools that are critical to launching and scaling successful responsible digital payments initiatives in Ghana’s cocoa value chain.
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
A year and a half post demonetization, only about 5% of India’s ~60 million MSMEs own digital acceptance devices. This report provides a deeper context and recommendations on small business profiles, infrastructure, needs, behaviors, and perceptions.
The Pocket Guide to Responsible Payment Digitization in the Coffee Value Chain will inform stakeholders on opportunities and tools available for payment digitization.
Blockchain Series: Blog 5
Grupo Bimbo identified digitization as a key element to help merchants remain competitive against modern retail stories in Mexico….
The IWCA endorses UN Responsible Digital Payments as a game-changer for women at every step of the coffee supply chain.
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
The presentation provides ideas for digital payments to replace cash as the most used mode of retail merchants worldwide.
Better placement of marketing materials can help boost usage of digital payments in small merchants. What are some other ways to drive usage? Read this IFC report that is based on feedback and learnings from early adopters of bKash in Bangladesh.
This playbook discusses the various potential Value Added Services that could increase uptake of mobile retail payments in Tanzania and similar emerging markets.
Lessons from our work with members in Ghana, India, Mexico, and the Philippines
Education programs and awareness campaigns can help improve mobile money usage among smallholder cassava farmers in Nigeria and Ghana. Better agent network and incentives may help too. Read …
New research from India states that low adoption of digital payments among small retailers is not a result of supply-side barriers, such as affordability and availability. It is due to deman…
A new Karandaaz study shows that around 95% of merchants in Pakistan do not accept digital payments. To promote adoption, it calls for creating awareness among users, better infrastructure, interoperability and reliability of services.
“Purpose 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 …
The Better Than Cash Alliance, in support of its member, the Government of Pakistan, and the State Bank of Pakistan, presents Realizing the Promise of Responsible Digital Payments for Merchants in Pakistan. The report provides a series of recommendations aimed at supporting MSMEs and enabling their transition into the digital payments’ ecosystem.