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The “Domino Effect” of Disbursing a Single Microloan

Society Development Committee, or SDC, based in Faridpur, Bangladesh, is a microfinance partner of the Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock and Nutrition Activity, funded by USAID and implemented by ACDI/VOCA. Through this partnership, thousands of people working in Bangladesh’s livestock sector have benefited from microfinance products.

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USAID CATALYZE Engines of Growth is developing a viable pipeline of investment-ready SMEs in the West Balkans through technical assistance, training, and administrative support in the information technology, agribusiness, and manufacturing sectors. Photo: Nikola Aleksic, Belgrade, Serbia

Bolstering Economic Dynamism in the Western Balkans

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USAID CATALYZE Mobilizing Private Capital for Development
In early 2022, the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia) started to emerge from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, boasting rising industrial production, exports to the European Union (EU), increases in wages, and credit growth. The region is ripe for investment, but Russia’s war against Ukraine threatens this recovery, through higher energy and food costs, disruption in supply chains, and interruptions in trade.
Bedouin woman working for the TWLCRM initiative in Petra, Jordan.

Let Women Work: Regulatory Issues and Wage Employment

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Wade Channell,
Anastasia de Santos
For poor women around the world, their two hands are often their most important ticket out of poverty. If they can find paid wage work in the same way that men do, it not only improves their own physical welfare, but also contributes to greater GDP growth.

What We Learned Through ONA... and What We Learned About ONA

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Craig Hempfling
The Government of Serbia is growing the MSME sector through public, private, education and civil society actors. USAID/Serbia asked the LEO activity to utilize organizational network analysis (ONA) to explore these networks' effectiveness.