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Marks & Spencer Joins the Better Than Cash Alliance on International Women’s Day

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Cash usage behaviour and its implication for digital payments: A case of Ghana and Nigeria's smallholder cassava value chain

Education programs and awareness campaigns can help improve mobile money usage among smallholder cassava farmers in Nigeria and Ghana. Better agent network and incentives may help too. Read …

How UN organizations can boost their impact

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.

Is cash still relevant?

Cash Digitization: UN Collaboration, Coordination, and Harmonization Opportunities

Cash Digitization: UN Collaboration, Coordination, and Harmonization Opportunities

New UN Better Than Cash Alliance’s Cash Digitization Study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.

New Key to Help Unlock the Power of Digital Payments

Across the global policy community, the jury is now in about the power of digital payments to drive financial inclusion, particularly for women and the poor; improve efficiency and transpare…

Picking the Gridlock: Digital Payments in the Transportation Sector

Transportation Series: Blog 1 (Introduction)…

For whom the cash tolls

Transportation Series: Blog 2…

How cities will win – digital payments and the future of smart

Transportation Series: Blog 3…

Truly mobile money – ride-sharing and mobile payments in South and Southeast Asia

Transportation Series: Blog 4…

Senegal: Digitizing payments could add FCFA 104 billion to GDP every year

Media release by the Government of Senegal, the Better Than Cash Alliance and MM4P…

Sénégal: La numérisation des paiements permettrait d’injecter 104 milliards de FCFA par an au PIB

Communiqué de presse du Gouvernement du Sénégal, l’Alliance Better Than Cash et MM4P…

For whom the cash tolls

Factories paying workers digitally are five times more likely to provide good social and labor practices

New data gathered from the Higg Index from 3,000 factories in 58 countries…

Going Cashless: An Opportunity to Accelerate Progress on the 2030 SDGs

Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …

Solutions for the Unbanked

MIT Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield talks with Wole Coaxum, MoCaFi founder and chief executive officer, Shamina Singh, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth president; and Tidhar Wald, Better Than Cash Alliance head of government relations and public policy, at the Bloomberg Sooner Than You Think technology summit in Brooklyn.

Dollars and Change-Podcast

Wharton Business Radio hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the “Dollars and Change” podcast….

Accelerating the SDGs: How Digital Finance Can Ignite Faster Progress Toward the Global Goals

As world leaders met at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, many discussions focused on how to ignite greater progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Increasin…

Uruguay impulsa pagos digitales con incentivos fiscales

El Gobierno de Uruguay albergó a otros países miembro de la Alianza Better Than Cash para compartir sus experiencias en cómo fomentar el uso de los pagos digitales a través de incentivos fiscales.