Better Than Cash Alliance

About Responsible Digital Payments

Define Digital Payments

Shifting payments from cash to digital has the potential to improve lives.

Responsible Digital Payments

By digitizing payments responsibly, we can swiftly reach financial equality.

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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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Scaling up Responsible Digital Payments in the Rwandan Tea Sector

This study lays the foundation for incorporating United Nations Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in the Rwandan tea sector, with the goal of increasing efficiency and improving farmers’ living incomes.

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25 years since Beijing – Spotlight on women!

In this edition of the newsletter, we applaud the leadership of Alliance members in the Philippines, Ghana and India who are ensuring that women can gain economic independence through digitization.

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Celebrating Women’s Day!

This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining our Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

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First look at how garment workers are being paid globally

In a first study of its kind, data from nearly 3,000 factories across 58 countries, reveals that paying workers digitally correlates positively with better working conditions.

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Gap joins our Alliance

Gap Inc. joins the Better Than Cash Alliance with a bold digitization goal

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Unilever joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Leading consumer goods company and sustainability champion Unilever has committed to transition away from cash throughout its value chain.

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One Acre Fund Study

Mobile payments are better than cash

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Digital Payments and Women

International Women’s Day Edition

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Our 5 favorite recent digital payments stories

500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments

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Mexico joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Mexico’s route to financial inclusion begins with commitment to reduce use of cash

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Launched! World’s first interoperable shared mobile payments platform

The Alliance contributed to the strategy, design and launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to five million Peruvians over the next five years.

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How women can add $12 trillion to global economy

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.

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The Government of India joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

The Government of India has joined the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance in an extension of the Indian Government’s commitment to reduce cash in its economy.

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