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Africa: World Bank Report: Digital Payments Vital to Economic Growth
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance, 28 August 2014
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments in Africa to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps Read more »
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Africa: Digitizing Money: A Big Opportunity for Broad-Based Growth in Africa
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance, 28 August 2014
The world’s poor people work hard and long, and they try, like all of us, to save for the future and invest in their children. But we know that the poor – and… Read more »
Digital Money 'Vital to Economic Growth'
Integrating digital payments into the economies of emerging and developing nations addresses crucial issues of broad economic growth and individual financial empowerment, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
Documents
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28 August 2014
The Opportunities of Digitizing Payments
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- World Bank Development Research Group, the Better Than Cash Alliance, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion
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How digitization of payments, transfers, and remittances contributes to the G20 goals of broad-based economic growth, financial inclusion, and women's ... see more »
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