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© The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Ideas & Updates

A means to an end: The post-2015 future of financial inclusion

Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself….
Ideas & Updates

Massive drop in number of unbanked, says new World Bank Findex Report

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2015 —Between 2011 and 2014, 700 million people became account holders at banks, other financial institutions, or mobile money service providers, and the number of “unb…
Ideas & Updates

In line with strategy to mature into an emerging economy, Nepal joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Government aims for economic growth and women’s empowerment through digital payments initiative…
Ideas & Updates

Papua New Guinea commits to digitizing all government payments

PNG’s Ministries of Finance and Treasury endorse Better Than Cash Alliance membership…
© Malaika Media Uganda
Ideas & Updates

Going rural with digital financial services

When a family member first told Mary that she could use her mobile phone to store her money, she felt that she had finally found a safe place to keep the earnings from her vegetable sales….
© S. Fitzgerald / Mercy Corps
Ideas & Updates

Mercy Corps recognized for providing emergency e-transfers to 25,000 Typhoon survivors in the ‪‎Philippines‬ ‬‬‬‬‬

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Toolkit

Business

Learn about how businesses like yours are benefiting from digital payments and how you can cut costs and improve efficiency.
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Ideas & Updates

Digital payments can empower women

Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog …
Ideas & Updates

Two challenges to help two billion reach financial security

Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obsta…
Industry Report

Case Study: Shifting Food Assistance in Kenya to E-Payments

This CGAP case study discusses the program elements of the World Food Programme’s Cash for Assets pilot in Kenya, as well as the design and implementation process, the experiences of stakeho…
© Women's World Banking
Ideas & Updates

Women’s World Banking offers lessons for creating a successful agency banking network

As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8th, Women’s World Banking reflects on a learning exchange with three African banks committed to serving low-income women….
Ideas & Updates

Saving $15.5 million by replacing cash with cards for Colombian coffee farmers

Two case studies from the Better Than Cash Alliance present innovations from Colombia’s digital payments ecosystem
Alliance Report

Country Diagnostic: Malawi

This diagnostic measures the current state of the transition to electronic payments by estimating volumes and values of payments made in Malawi, as well as assessing the likelihood of further movement by looking at payment use cases associated with each key shift.
Video

Webinar: How to measure a shift to electronic payments