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April 4, 2023

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) affirms that gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment are fundamental for the realization of human rights and key to effective and sustainable development outcomes. For societies to thrive, women and girls, men and boys, and gender-diverse individuals must have the agency, social support, and structures to make their own choices and live free from violence and abuse. They must have equal rights and opportunities, as well as equal and safe access to and control over resources.

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COVID-19 Rapid Market Impact Report

This post shares a new report from Mercy Corps highlighting how government restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 has impacted businesses, supply chain, markets and local economies.

COVID19 and MERS (the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards, not the respiratory illness)

This post shares guidance from the SEEP Network on how to apply the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards in a COVID-19 response.

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Gender Implications of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings

This post introduces a new policy brief from CARE sharing potential gendered implications of COVID-19 and recommendations for development and government actors.

Photo: A women’s committee on Manono Island, Samoa.

What Works to Enhance Women’s Agency

This J-PAL literature review draws from 160 randomized and natural experiments in low and middle-income countries to distill key lessons on what we know about supporting women’s agency based on quantitative evidence.

Photo: A young man sells his produce in a Dhaka market in Bangladesh.

Introducing the CGAP FY 2019 Annual Report

This report discusses three broad areas where financial services could play a role in improving the well-being of poor people.

Photo: Belleus Pierre, 31, is one of 59 merchants using T-Cash to sell basic food staples to families in the St. Marc Kenbe-La program.

Fair Play: Ensuring Competition in Digital Financial Services

In this primer, CGAP applies a framework to help answer these questions and demonstrate how regulation can have a substantial impact on competitive dynamics in the DFS marketplace.

Mobile Financial Services for Visually Impaired End-Users Pilot Initiative

USAID is working to identify and mitigate the implicit and explicit barriers to entry to economic enterprise, including those related to persons with disabilities.

Advancing Financial Inclusion through Use of Market Archetypes

A new paper by CGAP examines the relationship between per capita income and population density and achieving financial inclusion.

Pushing the Limits: Lessons from CARE on Market Systems Approaches, Food Security, and Resilience (Event Resources)

Grounded in an overview of CARE’s approach to resilience, this session features evidence and lessons learned from some of CARE’s most successful market engagement initiatives.

Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction: Why the Relationship Is Not As Strong As We Think

This presentation reviews recent evidence on the relationship between agricultural growth and poverty reduction. It concludes that while agricultural growth has the potential to be an effective driver of rural poverty reduction, this is not always the case. Reduction in rural poverty rates depend on how the agricultural growth occurs. Namely,

Skills for Upgrading: Workforce Development and Global Value Chains in Developing Countries

This research project provides a set of recommendations to donors and development agencies to formulate more efficient and timely workforce development initiatives that will enhance economic as well as social upgrading.

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