Digital payments

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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

Accelerators to an Inclusive Digital Payments Ecosystem

This paper reviews 25 countries where digitization has had great impact and reveals 10 tangible steps, or “accelerators,” that governments and companies can take to build inclusive digital economies.
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New United Nations Study Maps Top 10 Ways Governments and Companies Can Create Digital Economies

For the first time, new evidence from 25 countries shows how governments and companies can move away from cash, as McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost…
Alliance Reports >> Case Study

Person-to-Government Payments: Lessons from Tanzania’s Digitization Efforts

This case study explores the factors both supporting and impeding the widespread adoption of Person-to-Government (P2G) and Business-to-Government (B2G) payments in Tanzania, focusing on the period from 2012 to 2016.
© © Better Than Cash Alliance / Khalfan Mlulu
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New United Nations Study: Digital payments could boost tax revenue by nearly US$500 million each year and drive economic modernization in Tanzania

Findings illustrate how the private and public sector could work together to modernize economies, improve transparency and support financial inclusion and growth…
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

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.
© © GMSM 2016 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Small merchants big opportunity: The forgotten path to financial inclusion

This report identifies critical gaps and opportunities for the cashless economies to increase financial inclusion for MSMs aand provides some interseting insights from successful cases from sevral countries including Indonesia, Peru and Nigeria.
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Global Resources >> Industry Reports

G20 High Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion

The principles, endorsed in 2016 during the G20 Chinese Presidency, catalyzes the adoption of digital approaches to achieve G20’s goals of financial inclusion, inclusive growth and increasing women’s economic participation.
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

A Public-Private Partnership to Digitize Bus Fares in Rwanda

This CGAP blog dicsusses the successful cases of public-private partnerships to drive various digitiziation initiatives in Rwanda. One of those being ‘Rwanda Online’, which has brought 100 government services online over a period of three years and the digitization of bus fare payments in the same.

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Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Can electronic tax invoicing improve tax compliance?

This paper defines Republic of Korea’s motivation for Electronic Tax Invoicing (ETI), the implementation process, the legal and regulatory regimes, lessons learned, and future challenges for tax policy makers and tax authorities in developing countries.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Building digital ecosystem architectures: A guide to enterprise architecting digital technologies in the digital enterprise

This book defines digital ecosystems with examples from real industry cases and explores how enterprise architecture is evolving to enable physical and virtual, social, and material object collaboration and experience.
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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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Responsible Digital Payments: Reducing the risks that come with new opportunities

It’s all at our fingertips. The possibility to make a payment. The delight of receiving one. From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their p…
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Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Digital payments 2020: The making of a $500 billion ecosystem in India

The report makes recommendations for government in india to shape policy that simplifies KYC requirements, making digital payment transactions more user friendly.

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

During this year’s European Development Days (EDDs), which took place in Brussels from 15-16 June, digital technologies and the digitization of payments emerged as key enablers for the imple…
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India’s digital payments revolution

Joint post by Camilo Tellez-Merchan of Better than Cash Alliance and Vivek Belgavi of PwC India…
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Mexico’s route to financial inclusion begins with commitment to reduce the use of cash

One of the largest economies in Latin America keeps growth momentum going by joining the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to foster a financially inclusive economy…
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Done Right, Digital Finance Could Transform Humanitarian Response

Originally published on CGAP.org…
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The importance of partnerships in humanitarian response

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Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Quality of service more important than cost for humanitarian workers

The report provides key findings from the mobile money workshops conducted by Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) in January 2016- one in Dakar (Senegal) and other one in Gisenyi (Rwanda).

© ©Mercy Corps/Lily Frey
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Five Ways Digital Payments Are Coming to the Rescue in Emergencies

The ability to make and receive payments electronically has emerged, in recent years, as a technology hero during natural disasters and health pandemics. At a time when more people than ever…
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