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Enhancing women’s economic empowerment through digital cash transfers: Analysis of the Digitize/Direct/Design criteria applied to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar, India

This report shares the results from a recent landscaping exercise that identifies the constraints to effectively serving Bihari women through National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), India’s largest safety net program for rural households. The report is structured in line…

Minimum wages and wage protection in the Arab States: Ensuring a just system for national and migrant workers

This note for policymakers explores how States in the region – particularly those with a high percentage of migrant workers – can initiate a systematic, evidence-based process for setting and adjusting minimum wages, drawing on ILO standards and international good…

Equal pay through digital payments in Jordan

Jordan pledges to promote pay equity between women and men through digital

OECD/INFE Core Competencies Framework on financial literacy for MSMEs

This document contains a high-level, outcome-based, internationally relevant, core competencies framework on financial literacy for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and potential entrepreneurs. It highlights a range of financial literacy outcomes that may be important to sustain or improve…

New technologies and the transition to formality: The trend towards e-formality

This paper focusses on how technologies can enhance the impact of institutional public policies addressing informality. Today, an increasing number of governments are promoting the application of new technologies to simplify and facilitate the transition from the informal to the…

Making payroll cards work for employees

This report provides findings from consumer research on employee payroll card usage and opportunities for improvement in card design and delivery in the United States of America.

The future of supply chains: Why companies are digitizing payments

Drawing on data and interviews with around 40 companies and organizations, this report shows how digitizing supply chain payments is having a profound impact on global businesses, economies and individuals.

Bank identity: Banks, ID cards, and the emergence of a financial identification society in Sweden

Today, nearly the entire adult population in Sweden uses a digital BankID for more purposes than only financial ones. Issuing identity documents is commonly perceived as a task for state authorities, but in Swedish society banks have played a dominant…

Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia ATM Campaign

This video by the ILO Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia project presents in simple steps how to use an ATM.

Regulation of payroll card accounts: A guide for policymakers (with model payroll card legislation)

This guide, developed for the United States of America, provides policymakers with a comprehensive source of information concerning payroll cards. The American Payroll Association’s model payroll card legislation is included in the appendix.