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The International Labour Organization commits to expanding the use of responsible digital payments to advance decent work

New partnership will result in promoting digital payments as an important tool to increase security, financial inclusion and economic opportunities in the workplace. …
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Senegal: tech helps boost access to health to leave poverty behind

Some African nations lead the world’s e-money businesses. And several are finding that leaving notes and coins behind is not only improving efficiency, safety and transparency, but it is als…
© © Better Than Cash Alliance / Video Positive
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Blockchain: Cutting through the noise

Introduction: Framing of our blog series on distributed ledger technology…
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Distributed Ledger Technology: What Is It and Why Do We Care?

Blockchain Series: Blog 1…
© © WFP
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Distributed Ledgers: Looking Past the Hype

Blockchain Series: Blog 2…
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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DLT: Keep Calm and Let the Evidence Speak

Blockchain Series: Blog 3…
© © Fairfood Coconut Project
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Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls Ahead

Blockchain Series: Blog 4…
© © WFP
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Distributing Production: Can Distributed Ledgers Fuel a New Wave of Supply-Chain Innovation?

Blockchain Series: Blog 5…
© © MM4P
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Paying Across Borders: Can Distributed Ledgers Bring Us Closer Together?

Blockchain Series: Blog 6…
© © Arne Hoel / World Bank
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Driving to Scale: Bim’s Journey to Digital Financial Inclusion in Peru

Interview with Felipe Vásquez de Velasco, General Manager of Peruvian Digital Payments (PDP)…
© © Pagos Digitales Peruanos (PDP)
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The Digital Payments Opportunity: A Conversation

This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
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Interview with Maha Bahou, Central Bank of Jordan “Our strategy is national, not institutional”

Ms. Maha Bahou is the Executive Manager for Payment Systems & Domestic Banking Operations and Financial Inclusion Department at the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ)….
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Ugandan farmers – majority women - devise new mobile solution

Farmers are adapting mobile technology to meet market needs and drive progress on their own terms rather than waiting for telecommunications companies to deliver solutions…
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Can India Post rise up to the digital payments and financial inclusion challenge?

On 19 August 2015, the Reserve Bank of India approved licenses for eleven institutions to set up payment banks. The purpose was to have these banks further financial inclusion by providing small savings accounts and payment / remittance services to, “migrant labour workforce, low income households, small businesses, other unorganised sector entities and other users.”
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Media Briefing - Making cash history

Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals…
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India Announces New Partnership to Accelerate Financial Inclusion for Everyone

Government of India joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to share success stories from the world’s largest financial inclusion programme…
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Making Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021 a reality, Government joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Bangladesh commits to further national financial inclusion by accelerating the transition to digital payments…
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An infrastructure approach to improving Financial Inclusion

The Better Than Cash Alliance is introducing an occasional series on innovations that have the potential to reduce costs in digital payments. The first in this series is an article by Ryan Z…
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Digital payments can empower women

Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog …
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Two challenges to help two billion reach financial security

Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obsta…