Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
A discussion with UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance’s Private Sector Digital Innovation Lead Marjolaine Chaintreau and BSR’s HERproject Associate Director Chhavi Ghuliani on digital wages.
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…
Having a bank account is widely regarded as the first step toward financial inclusion of the poor. Funds deposited in a bank account are also observed to lead to higher savings. Exploiting special features of the National Rural Employment Guarantee…
This paper reviews evidence on the benefits and challenges faced by governments migrating from cash to digital (electronic) government-to-person (G2P) payments. When supported by an appropriate consumer financial protection framework, digital payments enable confidential and convenient financial services, which can…
This research article on the reviews current practices of wage disbursement in the Readymade Garment (RMG) Sector, proposects of digital payments, and potential impact on women workers, compliance, and the industry as a whole.
This article traces wages’ social productivity among farm workers on the Zimbabwean-South African border. In this migrant-labour setting, money’s form matters. Because currency objects are physically the same, it is difficult for workers to store them in an insecure environment,…
This report focuses on the last mile challenges faced by Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) workers in accessing their wages after the wages have been credited to the workers’ bank or postal accounts. It is based on…