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USAID: The Gender Digital Divide Working toward a global digital ecosystem for all La Côte d’Ivoire

Analyzing the Gender Digital Divide with country examples/data from India, Senegal & Indonesia
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Covid-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments

This brief highlights the role of cash transfers and digital distribution as a part of COVID-19 response in Colombia.
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G2PX: Digitizing government-to-person payments

The G2PX initiative brings global knowledge and expertise across sectors to contribute to the broader agenda of improving government-to-person payments through digitization that accelerates critical development outcomes.
© © Better Than Cash Alliance / Allan Gichigi
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Mobile money enabled cash assistance: User journeys in Burundi

This report applies a human-centered design approach that empathizes with and understands the lived experiences of Concern Burundi’s CVA recipients who are receiving mobile money-enable humanitarian aid.
© © GSMA
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Accelerating winds of change in global payments

The COVID-19 crisis is having a significant and widespread effect on global payments across sectors. The most striking and potentially lasting impact is an accelerating pace of change in the industry.
© McKinsey & Company | mckinsey.com
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Here’s how governments can help mobile phones become a humanitarian lifeline

Mobile technology has the potential to transform lives in the long run, not just during the coronavirus crisis, as long as we take the right steps to ensure nobody is left behind. This article outlines ways governments can step in to ensure mobile services help the world’s most vulnerable communities fight the pandemic and access essential support.
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The digital lives of refugees and Kenyans with disabilities in Nairobi: A human-centred design approach to identifying mobile-enabled opportunities

This research focuses on disability, using human-centred design methods to better understand how refugees and Kenyans with visual and hearing impairments in Nairobi use mobile technology and potential opportunities that it could provide.
© © GSMA
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Policy and regulatory recommendations to facilitate mobile humanitarian and social assistance during COVID-19

This guidance note outlines the most significant challenges that MNOs face (or likely to face) in the context of supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance in a COVID-19 world and offers relevant recommendations to governments on how to help address or mitigate these challenges.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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From conditional cash transfers to fintech adoption

This paper looks at the impact of introducing debit cards for conditional cash transfers in urban areas of Mexico.

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Partnering During Crisis: The Shared Value of Partnerships between Mobile Network Operators and Humanitarian Organisations

This research offers evidence to help MNOs make informed decisions about engaging in partnerships with humanitarian organisations, and to help humanitarian actors better understand their MNO partners and build successful long-term partnerships.
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Inclusive Growth: The Global Challenges of Social Inequality and Financial Inclusion

The book outlines a journey from enabling models of government and business to strategies for creating both financial and social inclusion and entrepreneurism as mechanisms for sustainable and inclusive growth.
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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Improving Financial Inclusion through the Delivery of Cash Transfer Programmes: The Case of Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme

This paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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Global cooperation to tackle digital divide

UNCTAD’s Digital Economy Report presents recent trends and discusses key policies for value creation and capture and calls for greater international collaboration.
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Global evidence on contribution of MSMEs

New ILO study reveals seven in 10 workers are self-employed or in small businesses. The study also finds that an average of 62% of employment (in the 99 countries studied) is in the informal sector. It calls for creating an enabling environment for these businesses and supporting them through access to finance and digital infrastructure.
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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New insights into inclusion-focused fintech 

The recently launched Inclusive Fintech 50 whitepaper looks at how early-stage fintechs are working on financial inclusion. Findings reveal that “funding is concentrated in several notable ways, innovation is not limited to technology and common standards are needed to bring clarity to the field.”
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Opportunities for digital in Pakistan 

GSMA report estimates that mobile phone ecosystem contributes around $16.7 billion to the Pakistani economy. To enhance the impact of mobile-enabled digital transformation, it calls for improving digital financial inclusion and taking a whole of government approach to development.
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Latest trends in the field of "suptech"

This paper examines latest trends in suptech initiatives by looking at the work of 39 financial authorities globally.

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How to put national digital agenda in action

Cross-agency collaboration, national and digital identity and having common templates and taxonomies in place can help governments on their digital journeys. Read the new Citi publication on digitizing governments that also features case studies from Pakistan and India.
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Youth, entrepreneurship and digital financial inclusion

New World Bank Findex note discusses the many ways in which young people in Sub-Saharan Africa are using formal financial services for entrepreneurship.

© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Mobile money spreads in Asia

Over the past five years, mobile money has gained traction in South Asia, which is experiencing an average annual growth rate of 46 percent in mobile money accounts—the highest across all regions. For more details check out IMF’s 2019 Financial Access Survey that was released last week
© Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet