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In March 2021, the USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (USAID/PPL) COVID Analytics Team prepared "Tracking the First- and Second-Order Impacts of COVID-19," a concise landscape analysis examining the pandemic's impacts across USAID sectors and regions after one year.  The analysis explores six broad areas -- the health crisis, macroeconomic and mobility shocks, household-level impacts, shifts in democratic governance and civic engagement, national security, and climate change -- and leverages the best available data from USAID and external institutions to unders

This guide provides an overview of issues to be taken into account when researching child time use with PRA methodology, along with a sample tool.

The report demonstrates how microfinance can be further leveraged to provide a powerful tool to address one of India’s persistent barriers to the economic advancement of the poor: ill health caused by lack of access to health services.

Marian Boquiren of SDCAsia and Anna Cuny Garloch of ACDI/VOCA discuss emerging insights as to how the value chain approach can more effectively be leveraged to “pull” the very poor into markets.

The paper demonstrates that the distribution of 'winners' and 'losers' is not determined purely by chance; it also reflects differences in endowments and efforts.

This paper was written by Strategic Development Cooperation - Asia as part of the Pathways out of Poverty Case Study series.

This paper was written by the Grameen Foundation as part of the Pathways out of Poverty Case Study series.

This paper was written by International Development Enterprises as part of the Pathways out of Poverty Case Study series.

This study is part of a series of guided case studies aimed at exploring whether and under what conditions the application of a value chain approach can help accelerate economic growth in conflict-affected environments. The case study attempts to evaluate the impact of two types of development interventions in the dairy sector in Serbia: one targeting processors the other focusing on farmers. It provides various recommendations for future value chain development initiatives in post-conflict environments.

Impact of the global economic crisis on remittance trends.

Regulatory environment for remittances.

Lessons learned from economic livelihood programs aimed at improving the economic future of street children.

Documents strategies used to deliver goods and services to conflict-affected populations in Nepal.

Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the Stepped Approach to Improved Livelihoods (SAIL) tool in post-conflict environments.