Resource Library

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.

This post introduces an April 2020 publication from ACDI/VOCA. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies, which means that it’s important to consider how to incorporate a gender and social inclusion lens into our COVID-19 responses and adaptations.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

This report documents practical approaches to mobilizing poor people’s savings.

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.

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,

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.

EMMA is a set of tools and guidance notes. It encourages and assists front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate and make use of market-systems. It does not offer a simplistic blueprint for action. However, EMMA does provide accessible, relevant guidance to staff who are not already specialists in market analysis. The EMMA toolkit adds value to established humanitarian practices in diverse contexts.

The Coping Strategies Index is intended to be an accessible tool to measure food insecurity. This field methods manual provides in-depth information on the tool and its application.

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

Matching youths' interests, skills and available resources to market opportunities for employment and self-employment.

Links to materials related to youth and either/both microfinance and conflict situations.

An analysis of trends in workers' remittances and their impact on economic growth.

Discusses how financial service providers can attract and retain clients by providing money transfers.