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As part of the 2019 Rural and Agricultural Finance State of the Sector series, this outcome area deep dive provides a new way of thinking about the global women’s economic empowerment challenge through a pathways lens.

This report form ISF Advisors and the Mastercard Foundation's Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab summarizes the latest data on the size and scope of the global rural agricultural finance market, finding a significant gap between supply and demand of financial services.

CARE’s Pathways program is based on the conviction that women farmers possess enormous potential to contribute to long-term food security for their families and substantially impact nutritional outcomes in sustainable ways.

The study provides a Distance/Purpose Framework that segments the e-money market by intended use (business or household) and the distance (local or long-distance) it travels.

Resettled youth are disadvantaged by their poor education during displacement.

During displacement, young women and men lack relevant education and training opportunities to build transferable skills.

This paper focuses on two Graduation Programme implementations – one by Trickle Up in West Bengal, India, and the other by Orangi Charitable Trust (OCT) in Sindh, Pakistan.

The aim of the “Taking Stock: Financial Education Initiatives for the Poor” report is to understand the landscape of financial education programmes for low-income households, what works in financial education programmes for these households, and why.

Provides information about the design and implementation of formalized linkages with public and private health providers.

This paper explores the possibility of delivering health services for clients while being cost-effective and sustainable for MFIs.