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A review of trends in modern contraceptive prevalence rates across low- and middle-income countries has led stakeholders to develop a normative S-shaped pattern for how family planning markets grow. In this model, low prevalence and little growth occur on one end, with high prevalence and low growth on the other, and a period of potentially rapid growth in between.

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.

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

This brief video demonstrates the G-Cash product, a text-to-payment service. G-Cash is a new technology that allows microentrepreneurs to transfer funds and make payments using their mobile phones.

This study explores the life stories of 125 women who have lived through violent political conflict in four middle-income countries.

Hiring women to be sales agents to develop the embroidered garment value chain in Pakistan.

This report presents the methodology and results from the 2007 household survey as part of the AMPER project.