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To reach scale and achieve the goal of eradication of extreme poverty by 2030, the graduation approach requires collaborative action among NGOs, MFIs and governments implementing safety net programs.

What drives youth involvement in agribusiness? A practitioner reflects.

Read these meaty takeaways from our online discussion about failure in entrepreneurship.

What happened when low-income teens in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal got their own savings accounts? Read the latest findings from the YouthSave project.

Youth Savings Groups can be a powerful tool for youth economic empowerment. We’ve got some tips on how to make the most of them.

What does "universal financial access" mean? USAID's Casey Dlott calls attention to the digital gender divide.

Drawing from his travels in Rwanda, USAID's Jim Yazman shares his reflections on the importance of wage labor for the extreme poor.

In this wrap-up post, the IRC concludes with key points from their mini-series on orphans and vulnerable children.

Plan Canada assesses the benefits of the Youth Microfinance Project as well as its effect on youth economic empowerment.

What evidence is there to prove that economic strengthening models work? This post explores a few areas that have seen promising practices for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).

IPA outlines several studies that test the impact of financial programs on youth.

This post highlights the November 20 webinar, hosted by Microlinks, titled “Youth Savings Services: Are They Worth It?”

Community-based, savings-led microfinance for children and youth is a promising new approach toward addressing the needs of the most vulnerable kids in poor countries. What could it mean?

Jason Wolfe, Senior Technical Advisor for the PEPFAR program, interviews Andrew Meaux and Barri Shorey from the IRC.

The International Rescue Committee launches "Financial Inclusion: A Case for Orphans and Vulnerable Children" as a mini-series on Microlinks.

Blog post by Elebthel Gebrehiwot, FIELD-Support intern, FHI 360 According to the World Economic Forum, in Tunisia, 40% of university graduates are unemployed compared to 24% of non-graduates. This suggests that youth graduating from university are lacking “21st century workplace skills,” such as digital literacy, inventive thinking, and effective communication. Many other countries are facing a similar problem. So how do we bridge the gap between unemployed or under employed youth, new job opportunities, and the right skill sets?

Interview with Jason Wolfe, Senior Household Economic Strengthening Advisor with USAID's Office of HIV/AIDS, where he supports PEPFAR programs to improve the economic circumstances of households affected by HIV/AIDS.

Brookings Visiting Fellow John W. McArthur delves into this issue and tries to answer the question that impacts in nearly all African countries: How do we increase economic opportunities for our rapidly growing youth population?

This year’s Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference, hosted by Making Cents International, had two main spotlights, the "Power of Technology” and “Opportunities for Rural Youth.”

On September 10, an incredibly honest and substantive breakout session on empowering adolescent girls through microfranchising was led by Barri Shorey of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Owen Ozier from the World Bank and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) during Day One of Making Cents’ 2013 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference in Washington, DC.

Panelists Jay Banjade (Independent Consultant), Radha Rajkotia (International Rescue Committee), and Margie Brand (EcoVentures International) share cases from the field on expanding livelihood opportunities for the extreme poor through private sector engagement. This follows a session entitled, "PSE at the Bottom of the Pyramid" at the recent USAID/E3 Engaging the Power of the Private Sector for Development training course.

Business schools in the developing world are finding they need to incorporate entrepreneurship education in their offerings. For these schools, building a curriculum is not just a matter of imitating their long established counterparts.

Mercy Corps has utilized a participatory, youth-led approach in several countries to enhance youth employment programming.

Fiona Macaulay, founder and CEO of Making Cents International, explains the 2012 conference focused on sustainable, scalable, and high quality programs.

USAID recently launched the Agency’s first Policy on Youth in Development to make young people a driving force in our development.