The Role of Digital Finance in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals
Categories : Customer and Users of Digital Payments, Financial inclusion
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Author: UNCDF
UNCDF and BFA have developed ideas behind measuring the impact of digital finance beyond just looking at account ownership to include impact on other SDGs. An example being pay as you go solar lighting, which can impact on education and ending poverty by allowing children to study and adults to work in the evenings.
The focus note maps a pathway, first looking at usage, secondly at what benefits it brought, and lastly how this is creating progress towards the SDGs. This interactive graphic gives useful summary of these pathways.