Topics Workers' rights

Financial inclusion policy

Financial inclusion and financial sector policy strategies and measures that explicitly refer to digital wage payments.

Labour policy

Labour policy measures of relevance to the promotion of responsible digital wage payments.

Collective agreements

Collective agreements that explicit refer to the digital payment of wages.

Financial education for garment workers in Cambodia – Trainee’s booklet

This trainee’s booklet supports participants in the ILO Financial Education course. It targets workers in the garment factories in Cambodia who wish to improve their money management. This booklet introduces basic knowledge, skills and tools related to earning, spending, budgeting…

A responsible transition to digital wages: A timely step for Cambodia

This entry relates the wage digitization experience of the garment industry in Cambodia, highlighting how digital wage payments can help workers by reducing vulnerability to theft and empowering women through enhanced control over household financial decisions.

Digital wages on the coast of Cambodia

This entry relates the wage digitization experience of Horseware Products (Cambodia) Co., Ltd , a horse ware production factory employing 215 workers in Sihanoukville, on the Cambodian coast.

The expanding universe of bilateral labor agreements

Since the end of World War II, pairs of countries have entered into over a thousand bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) to regulate the cross-border flow of workers. These agreements have received little public or academic attention. This is likely, in…

How are health workers paid and does it matter? Conceptualising the potential implications of digitising health worker payments

Payment digitization efforts in the health sector in low/middle-income countries have accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, research on impacts of worker payment digitization on health systems is lacking. This article offers a conceptual model detailing how payment digitization…

How to scale up digital wages in line with the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments

This blog post presents lessons learned and recommendations to companies and governments wanting to scale up digital wages and drive change, in relation to three UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments, based on lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal.

The Global Findex Database 2021

Financial inclusion is a cornerstone of development, and since 2011, the Global Findex Database has been the definitive source of data on global access to financial services from payments to savings and borrowing. The 2021 edition, based on nationally representative…