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The authors use data from a leading fintech firm in Korea, including transaction-level data on international remittance payments to developing Asia and referral data among users, to study the role of social networks in helping low-income workers optimize their use…
This report shares the benefits for garment sector workers and business following participation in HERfinance in India.
Drawing on the experience of the HERproject Digital Wages Program, this report sets out three possible future scenarios of how digital wages may evolve for women garment workers in Bangladesh over the next 10 years. It offers recommendations for action…
2020 put clothing supply chains under immense pressure, but it didn’t change our commitment at M&S to being transparent & collaborative in how we work in order to offer our customers ethically made & trusted value clothing.
This research leverages a randomized controlled trial covering 197 village clusters in northern Madhya Pradesh, India, where the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme typically deposited women workers’ wages in the bank account of the man head of household.…
This report discusses findings from human-centred design research around the use of cash-in and cash-out services conducted with 400 persons in Bangladesh, India, Northern Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania, including about 250 women. It presents the key challenges women face,…
To understand the challenges in wage digitization in garments sector, in the midst of a global pandemic, the principal conveners of the Digital Wages Summit 2019 under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh strived to understand the challenges of…
This webinar, organized by Better Factories Cambodia, featured speakers from the World Bank, Microfinance Opportunities, and BSR.
This post discusses the introduction of the digitial yuan as a means of wage payment in China.