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Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
In Kenya, 78% of wage earners now receive digital payments, a remarkable increase from 55% in 2014, thanks to mobile money innovations. However, challenges remain in transitioning from cash wages to responsible digital payments. Together with Regio Trade, we conducted…
This rapid assessment explores women workers’ experiences and perceptions in their transition to digital wage payments in Cambodia. The report provides important insights and suggested areas of intervention that could maximize the benefits of digital wage payments for workers.
Digital wage payments (through bank accounts, mobile money wallets or prepaid cards) can benefit workers and enterprises and contribute to achieving public policy goals. But the transition from cash to responsible digital wages brings challenges such as limited financial infrastructure…
Digital wage payments (through bank accounts, mobile money wallets or prepaid cards) can benefit workers and enterprises and contribute to achieving public policy goals. But the transition from cash to responsible digital wages brings challenges such as limited financial infrastructure…
Digital financial services offer real hope to help the world get back on track from the severe negative impacts from COVID-19. Building on the success of the 2018 edition, this new version provides updated and extensive evidence-based examples of the benefits…
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…
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…
This report assesses the contribution of digital financial services to the economic empowerment and financial inclusion of women workers in the ready-made-garments sector of Bangladesh from May 2020 until December 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…
To assess the market potential for digital wage payments in Cambodia’s garment sector (which employs approximately 80% female workers), the research team interviewed representatives of the three main stakeholder groups—factories, financial service providers, and workers — as well as other…