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This document provides an overview of how countries have leveraged the spread of digital technologies and infrastructure to improve governance, including by digitizing identification systems, social safety net services such as unconditional cash payments, and government response during emergencies (including…
This document summarizes the relationship between access to digital financial services and women’s economic empowerment. Topics include the mechanisms through which that access can help expand the breadth of women’s support networks, expedite transfers during periods of need, empower women…
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.…
The Wage Digitization Digest was a monthly desk-based intelligence report produced by Synergos from May 2020 – June 2021 that sourced from English-language media spanning a monthly timeframe specified in the digest. The report covered the impact on workers during…
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,…
Over the past decades, the dissemination of technology and digital infrastructures has opened up new and seemingly unparalleled opportunities for sustained growth and innovation. Markets have become more interconnected, digital products and services have mushroomed around the world, and digital…
Qatar, Philippines and ILO showcase digital wage payment solutions for decent work, at UN STI Forum
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 how digital financial solutions can improve women’s access to formal financial services.
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…