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11/17/2021
Country Studies

COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments Country Brief: South Africa

G2PX is an initiative within the World Bank Group that seeks to improve government-to-people payments through digitization, in part by identifying best practices throughout the developing world. In this country study, G2PX examines the experience of South Africa in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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11/17/2021
Country Studies

COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments Country Brief: Jordan

G2PX is an initiative within the World Bank Group that seeks to improve government-to-people payments through digitization, in part by identifying best practices throughout the developing world. In this country study, G2PX examines the experience of Jordan in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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11/17/2021
Country Studies

COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments Country Brief: Colombia

G2PX is an initiative within the World Bank Group that seeks to improve government-to-people payments through digitization, in part by identifying best practices throughout the developing world. In this country study, G2PX examines the experience of Colombia in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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11/17/2021
Country Studies

COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments Country Brief: Peru

G2PX is an initiative within the World Bank Group that seeks to improve government-to-people payments through digitization, in part by identifying best practices throughout the developing world. In this country study, G2PX examines the experience of Peru in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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11/17/2021
Country Studies

COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments Country Brief: Ecuador

G2PX is an initiative within the World Bank Group that seeks to improve government-to-people payments through digitization, in part by identifying best practices throughout the developing world. In this country study, G2PX examines the experience of Ecuador in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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11/17/2021
Country Studies

COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments Country Brief: Pakistan

G2PX is an initiative within the World Bank Group that seeks to improve government-to-people payments through digitization, in part by identifying best practices throughout the developing world. In this country study, G2PX examines the experience of Pakistan in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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11/17/2021
Country Studies

COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Delivery Country Brief: Brazil

G2PX is an initiative within the World Bank Group that seeks to improve government-to-people payments through digitization, in part by identifying best practices throughout the developing world. In this country study, G2PX examines the experience of Brazil in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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11/17/2021
Blog Posts

Catalyzing Action on Digital Payments: Insights from National Transformation Journeys

The Better Than Cash Alliance offers technical assistance to government members to make the shift from cash to digital – by helping to conduct diagnostic studies and advising on national strategies to help to benchmark and map the priorities. This two-part blog, discusses the factors that support the implementation of a comprehensive digitization agenda and how to build sustainable systems and structures to implement priorities while adapting to rapid growth....

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11/12/2021
Digital Payment Ecosystems

Gender and Safety Nets – Priorities for Building Back Better

This note published by the World Bank presents four priorities to build stronger safety nets that help address gender inequality. 1) Maintain and extend coverage among vulnerable groups, prioritizing women and taking the specific needs of women into account. 2) Invest in adaptive delivery systems that recognize women and girls’ specific vulnerabilities. 3) Leverage digital technologies to reach and empower women in safety net programs. 4) Invest in cash plus...

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11/12/2021
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

The Platformness of Digital Identity Platforms

Digital identity platforms allow the construction of complements on a centralised core, enabling user identification for private and public services. While presenting all traits characteristic of innovation platforms, digital identity platforms are curiously understudied in the Information Systems literature, largely as a result of a limited focus on the properties that underscore their nature as platforms, or “platformness”. In this paper we first present a taxonomy of the main perspectives...

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