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Millions of people in the Dominican Republic struggle with poverty and hunger. In the past, distributing food, fuel and medicine was slow, expensive and often didn’t reach the intended recip…
This case study examines the transition of 25,000 social welfare beneficiares to electronic payments: how the decision was made; how donors, government and private sector cooperated; the st…
This document describes four case studies on the use of mobile money in Kenya, covering use by a government ministry (The Ministry of Lands), an NGO implementing partner of USAID (PACT), a g…
Conditional and unconditional cash transfers have been effective in improving development outcomes in a variety of contexts, yet the costs of these programs to program recipients and impleme…
The report looks at the opportunity to build a nation-wide electronic money network in PNG, where 90% of the population was unbanked. It highlights the cost and opportunities to public and …
IFC’s Mobile Money Toolkit © is a combination of both the best publicly available information and original content and newly created materials
The underlying foundation of a country’s financial system – including all institutions, information, technologies, rules and standards that enable financial intermediation – is its “financia…
This study exams the real and perceived constraints social welfare beneficiaries and low income households face in using formal banking services. The study was done to inform the government…
Distributing benefits, such as child support, unemployment and disability assistance, has been transformed by the use of prepaid cards. Instead of mailing paper checks, 40 states now use Vis…