The global e-payments ecosystem continues to evolve at a staggering pace, as traditional concepts of finance, personal identity and trust are upended, almost overnight, by technological advances. To understand the growth and evolution of specific governments’ enablement of e-payment adoption and to gauge where countries stand in relation to one another, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) created the Government E-Payments Adoption Ranking (GEAR) in 2007. The 2018 edition of the GEAR Study was commissioned by Visa and is EIU’s third, following publication in 2007 and 2011. The research for this study was conducted between fall 2017 and spring 2018 by a global team of country analysts.
The 2018 Government e-payments adoption ranking
Measuring the enabling environment for e-payments adoption