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2022 Annual Report - Scaling responsible digital payments to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly financial equality for women

In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.

2021 Annual Report - Responsible digital payments: accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and rebuilding inclusive economies

The impressive achievements of our Alliance members, working together with the Secretariat, are highlighted in our 2021 Annual Report.

2016 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals

The report establishes how the mobile industry impacts the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a set of commitments that will ensure that the SDGs are an enduring influence on our industry’s roadmap.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (CGAP)

The report provides evidence on how financial inclusion facilitates various Sustainable Development Goals and highlughts how governments have been able to significantly reduce cost and leakages.

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals.

Digital payments are key implementation tool for Global Goals, say EU leaders

During this year’s European Development Days (EDDs), digital technologies and the digitization of payments emerged as key enablers for the implementation of the SDGs.

Accelerating the SDGs: How Digital Finance Can Ignite Faster Progress Toward the Global Goals

As world leaders met at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, many discussions focused on how to ignite greater progress toward the SDGs.

Gap Inc. Sets New Goal For Apparel Suppliers To Pay Garment Workers Digitally By 2020

Joins UN-based Better than Cash Alliance to Promote Financial Inclusion and Greater Supply Chain Transparency and Efficiency…

LEARNING SERIES >> Institutional capacity-building on digital payments is needed if recommendations are to achieve sustainable national transformation

Building capacity within government agencies that champion digital payments

Better Than Cash Alliance Recognized As Example for Effective Development

On April 15-16, 2014 the Better Than Cash Alliance presented at the First High Level Meeting for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico City, Mexico.

Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’

Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’…

Inter-American Development Bank is first to join non-cash alliance

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 …

World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery

The World Bank analyzes how COVID-19 is affecting emerging economies and how to mitigate interconnected financial risks to achieve an equitable recovery.

Household finance and economic development

This chapter provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and discusses the empirical evidence on how the use of formal financial services significantly contribute to inclusive growth and economic development.

Ethiopia’s National Digital Payments Strategy 2021-2024

An inclusive digital payment ecosystem is a key enabler to make Digital Ethiopia a reality by 2025 and advance the Sustainable Development Goals

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.

Media Briefing - Making cash history

Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Bangladesh’s National Digital Payments Roadmap 2022-2025

The National Digital Payments Roadmap provides a high-level plan to expand the adoption of responsible digital payments in a way that is agile, inclusive, and helps achieve the SDGs.

The Fight for Light: Improving Energy Access through Digital Payments

This report examines new business models and government initiatives for energy access that rely upon digital payments.