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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

Digital Governance: Ideas and Lessons from India

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance.

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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

Agent Module

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first four modules of this series were Aadhaar, PMJDY, Digital Governance, and PFMS. The fifth and last module is Agent Networks.

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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

PFMS

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first three modules of this series were Aadhaar, PMJDY, and Digital Governance. The fourth module of this series is on Public Financial Management System (PFMS).

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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

PMJDY

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first module of this series was Aadhaar. The second module of this series is PMJDY.

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05/27/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

Aadhaar Ideas and Lessons from India

As part of its program to facilitate exposure visits to India for governments across the globe, MSC has documented India's journey towards financial inclusion and digital governance. The first module of this series is Aadhaar.

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05/26/2020
Blog Posts

Is COVID-19 Pakistan’s Black Swan Event for Digital Payments?

As shown by the technical underpinnings of its Ehsaas emergency program, Pakistan has all of the necessary building blocks to roll out its digital payments system and expand access to mobile money. It should seize the opportunity.

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05/26/2020
Beneficiary Identification, Targeting, Onboarding

Citizens and States: How Can Digital ID and Payments Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?

This report considers the potential of ID, mobiles, and payments to improve the capacity of governments to deliver more effective, inclusive, and accountable programs.

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05/21/2020
Blog Posts

Can We Use Digital Technology to Cushion the Pandemic’s Blow—and in the Longer Run, Deliver on the SDGs?

As the world grapples with COVID-19, more than 50 countries, including the United States, have announced some form of cash transfer or social assistance to help tide over the immediate challenges faced by their citizens. Delivering on these promises will require an enormous increase in the capacity of states to make payments to their citizens, or government-to-people (G2P) transfers, as they are widely known.

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05/20/2020
Blog Posts

Responding to crisis with digital payments for social protection: Short-term measures with long-term benefits

Government-to-person (G2P) payments have never been more important, as governments worldwide seek for ways to respond to the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenge of making these massive payouts to the poor and informal sector workers is highlighting the differences between the G2P payment ecosystems across countries.

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05/18/2020
COVID-19

Online Event: Cash Transfers for COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

This event will highlight cash transfers as a tool for response and development in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic. While recognizing that no intervention is a silver bullet, panelists will explore the potential benefits and feasibility of massive scale-up of cash transfer and universal basic income (UBI) programs in LMICs and their value for the COVID-19 response; how LMIC governments, bilateral and international institutions, and other organizations can best utilize and support these programs; and how to ensure the programs are cost-effective and serving the communities, households, and individuals who need them most.

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