Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
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…
This slide deck presents a 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to rebuild stronger after COVID-19 by prioritizing women’s digital financial inclusion
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.
HERproject has developed audio messages that provide information about using financial services and money management, which can be played on the public address (PA) system.
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 report develops a conceptual framework to explore the causal mechanisms linking women’s economic empowerment and digital financial services, reviews the empirical evidence for each of these mechanisms, identifies challenges observed in interpreting the evidence, and highlights a set of…
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…