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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We explore lessons from working with our member governments to design and execute G2P & humanitarian payments.
Our latest report guides humanitarians to assess if and how digital payments can be effective
The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have been severely affected by COVID-19, with a regional GDP contraction of 6.7%** according to the World Bank.
The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the Sustainable Development Goals within reach
The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the SDGs within reach.
New Alliance report “Success Factors in Tax Digitalization” is another powerful demonstration of how digital payments can positively impact millions of lives.
Guest speakers highlighted Colombia’s experience in providing digital transfers to nearly 3 million households.
In this e-blast, we give a quick round-up of how our members, new ones and old, are turning to digitization in their battles against COVID-19.
This webinar captured lessons on delivering vital government-to-person (G2P) payments that expands choice.
A new Better Than Cash Alliance and World Bank paper outlines factors for the financial exclusion of the elderly and explores how digital financial technology can help governments better prepare for global aging challenges.
In a new report, the Better Than Cash Alliance shows how improved digitization and harmonization can help UN agencies and partners make an even greater impact.
Here are highlights on how our global partnership ignited progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals through shifting to digital payments.
In a new compendium, we share some really exciting evidence on this from around the world.
Good news ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit
The Alliance contributed to the launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to 5 million Peruvians over 5 years.
A new report by the World Bank, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking provides insights on how digital financial services can help close the gender gap.
Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company, announced that it will strengthen its commitment to digitize traditional small shops in Mexico.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
Women need confidential and easily accessible financial services as well as control over their finances, and electronic payments bring these features to financial products.