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Instant Payments and Merchants — Pricing Policy Considerations
This technical note helps explain why changes in instant payment pricing are occurring, assesses their impact on market development, and offers suggestions for the path forward.
Responsive by Design: Building Adaptive Social Protection Systems in South Asia
The purpose of this report is to apply the adaptive social protection framework to the South Asian context to guide future dialogue and policy making.
Starting the Transaction: Payment Initiation and Customer Experience
This technical note is framed to help policymakers and payment system operators understand recent trends in payment initiation and customer experience in making interoperable payments work better for low-income populations.
Promoting Responsible Digital Wage Payments
This brief gives an overview of the different considerations to maximize the potential of digital wage payments to benefit workers, employers, and governments.
Scaling up Responsible Digital Payments in the Rwandan Tea Sector
This report proposes an approach for scaling digital payments in the Rwandan tea sector building on the evolving payments ecosystem.
G2P Next in India: Choice, Resilience and Inclusivity
This policy brief draws on global trends to understand how government-to-person programs can evolve to address India's challenges.
Can G2P Unlock Women’s Economic Empowerment? Evidence From Asia and Africa
This slide deck documents MSC's journey of evaluating key government-to-person (G2P) programs across Asia and Africa to understand how G2P payments impact women.
Financial Inclusion of Refugees in Jordan
This report looks back at what has been achieved in the financial inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers in Jordan since 2015, when the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) first launched its initiative to enhance national financial inclusion.
Digital Wages for Decent Work in Peru- A Rapid Assessment
This rapid assessment, analyzing the potential for responsible digital wages, focuses on two key sectors and geographical areas in Peru.
Next Generation G2P Payments: Building Blocks of a Modern G2P Architecture
This report provides a framework for a modern G2P payments architecture which can support long-term development outcomes through the digitalization of G2P payments laying out a path to a better, recipient-centered G2P system.