Digital Payments — Not Cash — Is Now King in Asia’s Payment Ecosystem
Notwithstanding border restrictions, the region’s digital payments ecosystem is growing as countries collaborate to connect their domestic payment systems.
Social Protection During the Pandemic: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
How have policy responses mitigated the impact of the pandemic on poverty in the region?
Bill and Melinda Gates Are Now Backing New Digital Payments System in Pakistan to Support Financial Inclusion for Women
The new online payments system, Raast, has been launched to support women who might have been financially marginalized or unable to access modern financial services for a long time.
Payment System Design and the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap
This goal of this study is to understand if a better digital payment system design can create the conditions for more women to use digital financial tools.
Building Faster Better: A Guide to Inclusive Instant Payment Systems
Practical resource for stakeholders working toward interoperability in instant payments
COVID-19, Government Transfer Payments, and Investment Decisions in Farming Business: Evidence from Northern India
Assessing the impact of public transfer programs on farmers dealing with the COVID shock
USAID Digital Payments Toolkit 2020
This Toolkit is designed to be used by organizations regardless of their experience with digital payments and to inspire and enable organizations new to digital payments to make the switch.
Rapid Response for Social Payments During COVID-19
Country-specific examples and key takeaways on what governments are doing to enable rapid payments to the unbanked
Protecting Beneficiary Data
Guidance for municipal cash transfer programs responding to COVID-19
Designing Municipal Cash Transfer Programs to Mitigate the Economic Impact of COVID-19
Analyzing public, private, and nonprofit-led responses to the coronavirus through direct cash assistance