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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

Agent Module

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first four modules of this series were Aadhaar, PMJDY, Digital Governance, and PFMS. The fifth and last module is Agent Networks.

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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

PFMS

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first three modules of this series were Aadhaar, PMJDY, and Digital Governance. The fourth module of this series is on Public Financial Management System (PFMS).

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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

PMJDY

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first module of this series was Aadhaar. The second module of this series is PMJDY.

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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

Aadhaar Ideas and Lessons from India

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first module of this series is Aadhaar.

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05/26/2020
Blog Posts

Is COVID-19 Pakistan’s Black Swan Event for Digital Payments?

As shown by the technical underpinnings of its Ehsaas emergency program, Pakistan has all of the necessary building blocks to roll out its digital payments system and expand access to mobile money. It should seize the opportunity.

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05/26/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

Citizens and States: How Can Digital ID and Payments Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?

This report considers the potential of ID, mobiles, and payments to improve the capacity of governments to deliver more effective, inclusive, and accountable programs.

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05/21/2020
Blog Posts

Can We Use Digital Technology to Cushion the Pandemic’s Blow—and in the Longer Run, Deliver on the SDGs?

As the world grapples with COVID-19, more than 50 countries, including the United States, have announced some form of cash transfer or social assistance to help tide over the immediate challenges faced by their citizens. Delivering on these promises will require an enormous increase in the capacity of states to make payments to their citizens, or government-to-people (G2P) transfers, as they are widely known.

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05/20/2020
Blog Posts

Responding to crisis with digital payments for social protection: Short-term measures with long-term benefits

Government-to-person (G2P) payments have never been more important, as governments worldwide seek for ways to respond to the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenge of making these massive payouts to the poor and informal sector workers is highlighting the differences between the G2P payment ecosystems across countries.

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05/19/2020
Blog Posts

Using What You Have to Scale up Payments for COVID Response: Early Indications from South Asia

Our message to countries is simple: Use what you have now to scale up quickly and build on your strengths to build back better systems. While every case is different, it is useful to compare countries at a similar stage of development and with a shared history. Together, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh constitute over one fifth of the world’s population and almost half of the global poor. This blog offers an initial view on the ways in which the JAM is being used to scale up support.

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05/18/2020
Country Studies

Primary Education Stipends in Bangladesh: Do Mothers Prefer Digital Payments over Cash?

How has this move from cash to digital affected beneficiaries of Bangladesh's primary education stipend? We conducted a field survey using both a quantitative questionnaire and qualitative assessments, with separate modules for school headmasters and mothers with children enrolled in the program. The objective of the survey was to understand the perception and experience of the disbursement of PESP through mobile financial services.

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