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6 May, 2020

G2P Network

A joint platform to share information on the modernization of Government-to-person payment systems using digital technology.

18 May, 2020

COVID-19: How Countries Can Use Digital Payments for Better, Quicker Cash Transfers
18 May, 2020

Online Event: Cash Transfers for COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
18 May, 2020

Primary Education Stipends in Bangladesh: Do Mothers Prefer Digital Payments over Cash?
19 May, 2020

Using What You Have to Scale up Payments for COVID Response: Early Indications from South Asia
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17 October, 2022

Agent Networks​ at the Last Mile​: Implications for Policy Makers

  • Emilio Hernandez, Christopher Blackburn

Rural agent networks are critical to “last mile” financial inclusion. This reading deck for policy makers does two things: (i) it shows how rural Cash-in/Cash-out (CICO) agent network expansion is key to ensuring poor people can capture the benefits of digital financial ecosystems; and (ii) it presents a set of policies that have been effective in enabling rural CICO in a way that benefits vulnerable segments, like rural women, and...

26 October, 2021

Developing Inclusive Digital Payment Systems

  • Romina Bandura, Sundar R. Ramanujam

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation across the world. This post by CSIS explores the advantages and risks in the shift to digital payments, outlines principles for inclusive digital payments systems, and briefly summarizes the experiences of Kenya and Mexico.

22 October, 2021

Evolution, Not Revolution: The New BTCA Report Reflects Continuity and Change in Thinking on Digital Payments Ecosystems

  • Brian Webster and Anit Mukherjee

The past few years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of digital payments worldwide. The percentage of global transactions conducted in cash fell from 89 percent in 2013 to 77 percent in 2019, and mobile wallets grew in popularity. The demands of social distancing brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have only reinforced those trends. It has been projected that half of all people will use mobile wallets...

15 September, 2021

National Cash Transfer Responses to Covid-19

  • Christina Lowe, Anna McCord, Rodolfo Beazley

The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic complicated the delivery of social protection payments, while at the same time necessitating their use at unprecedented scale. Lowe, McCord, and Beazley analyze optimal approaches to distributing and expanding G2P transfers in 2020 by combining literature review with case studies of Nigeria, Peru, Sri Lanka, and Togo. Their findings highlight the importance of comprehensive ID systems, digital and financial inclusion, existing systems, and...

20 May, 2021

Public Financial Management and the Digitalization of Payments

  • Marco Cangiano, Alan Gelb, and Ruth Goodwin-Groen

Payments are central to how governments transfer and receive financial resources; however, the way such payments are made is often not mainstreamed in public financial management (PFM) despite the fact that many of the direct benefits from effective digitalization of payments are identitical to those traditionally expected from strong PFM systems. The digitalization of payments does not provide a silver bullet for solving PFM problems; therefore it needs to be approached in an integrated way, with leadership from central agencies, including the Ministry of Finance, to exploit the synergies between the many different types of payments facilitated by digital technology.

28 January, 2021

Let Her Choose: Supercharging G2P for Women

  • Greg Chen, Maria May

The most valuable innovation is in G2P delivery systems that empower women to choose how to receive their cash.

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