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Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
This report evidences HERfinance Digital Wages Programme’s benefits for factories and workers via increased efficiency, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment. It uses two data sources: HERfinance Digital Wages survey data collected from 64 factories through 4,076 baseline surveys and…
This report developed by the International Labour Organization Project Office for the State of Qatar provides insight into the strengths and gaps in the Wage Protection System from a number of perspectives, and puts forward actionable recommendations for its improvement.
This quantitative research by MSC, commissioned by BSR, analyzed the financial behavior of female garment workers in India as part of efforts to improve wage digitization processes and methodology.
This report presents the results of research conducted in Bangladesh by Microfinance Opportunities in collaboration with the Social Performance Task Force on the experiences of garment workers whose employers changed from paying them in cash to paying them digitally.
This article examines the public debate between 1945 and 1986 in Great Britain over repealing the Truck Acts. Advocates of repeal hoped that it might encourage workers to accept wage payment by cheque or electronic transfer, which most manual workers…
Wage digitization in the apparel industry is just in its infancy but is quickly gaining traction as more and more owners see the benefits with the model. However, in order for the adoption to increase, there are certain challenges to…
This action plan explores how ready-made garment factories and mobile financial service providers in Bangladesh can collaborate in digitizing the salary disbursement process for workers.
This report summarizes the channels through which the knowledge and technological benefits of digital payments and digital IDs can catalyze change in the implementation of welfare initiatives and household decisions surrounding these programs. The authors highlight four open areas of…
This paper explores economic informality and how it relates to digital financial inclusion. It focuses specifically on the potential role that digital financial services–including those accessed through mobile phones and the internet–can play in encouraging businesses to formalize their operations.
This slide deck presents the results of a rapid assessment on electronic payment in Thai fishing, conducted in January/February 2019, approximately six months after bank account requirement came into force.