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This news item highlights the trend of reverting back to cash wages among factories in the readymade garment industry in Bangladesh and presents possible explanation based on recent research.
This blog post describes the evolution of digital wage payments in factories spread across Bangladesh’s five main industrial areas (Chittagong, Dhaka City, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Savar). The findings are based on monthly phone interviews conducted between April and October 2020…
How do inexperienced consumers learn to use a new financial technology? This paper presents results from a field experiment that introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely unbanked factory workers in Bangladesh. In the experiment, workers in a treatment…
This post discusses the use of tech learning tools to support workers, especially women, transition to digital wages and help them to access, use, and ultimately benefit from their new payroll accounts.
The editorial published by The Daily Star with the headline “Financial hardship of RMG workers” mentioned that the RMG workers’ appears to be an inaccurate interpretation of the original study report by SANEM / MFO which is seriously misleading. Though…
This news item discusses emerging challenges to workers in the readymade garment industry in Bangladesh in the period leading to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webinar is the second in the Global Learning Exchange Series on Digital Payments, hosted by the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the IFC/ILO Better Work Programme, and the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance. The main objectives…
This report reviews existing evidence on the impact of digital financial services and associated policies on development outcomes, provides an overview of the Indonesian context, and identifies promising areas for future research and policy innovation.
The objective of this manual is to provide some effective recommendations to Ready-Made Garments (RMG) factories that are seeking to digitize their wage disbursement system, based on the experiences of Sarathi’s work with two partner commercial banks in digitizing the…
HERfinance Digital Wages videos and animation, developed with Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and QuizRR, are part of HERfinance Digital Wages Tech Learning Tool. They give engaging guidance and information for workers around financial services and improving financial health. They…