Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
This report provides recommendations to make credible advances on responsible payments digitization for workers in Senegal, with an emphasis on raising awareness of the benefits and costs amongst key stakeholders, promoting trust and fair digital payment standards, introducing targeted incentives…
This article analyses the earned wage access market, assesses the likelihood that it will displace payday lending, and reveals some of the dangers lurking beneath the low-cost surface of these transactions. It argues that earned wage access products have the…
This webinar, organized by Better Factories Cambodia, featured speakers from the World Bank, Microfinance Opportunities, and BSR.
This research brief outlines key findings on the impact of mobile money on poverty. It shares evidence from a range of studies about the effects of mobile money on individuals and households and about the user experience of payment transfers…
This post discusses the introduction of the digitial yuan as a means of wage payment in China.
This article synthesizes research about the long-term costs of debt inequality on communities of colour in the United States of America, adding an in-depth analysis of several new advances in banking and lending, and proposing several key principles for reducing…
The ILO and Women’s World Banking, along with the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade hosted a webinar on digital wage payments given its potential to empower workers, particularly women workers, by increasing their control over their wages…
On 3 February, IOE, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization and the Better Than Cash Alliance, organised a digital conference on the opportunities and challenges in digital wage payments, as well as on lessons learned in the field.
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…