Resource Library

Using treatment and control groups, researchers tested whether linking Rwandan youth with the economy, private, and public sectors would improve youth livelihoods. Read more for the results.

The information contained in this report represents the collective insights of 39 microfinance association leaders from 33 countries across Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia.

A new CARE report looks at lessons from eight innovative projects to connect poor people to banks and financial institutions using mobile phones and other means.

El Programa de Desarrollo Económico Local-PRODEL, financiado por la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional -USAID, ha culminado con éxito cinco años de trabajo en las zonas fronterizas del norte y sur del Ecuador.

The USAID/East Africa Market Linkages Initiative was a two-year regional program to promote growth in food staples and food security, working alongside partners to integrate smallholder farmers into more efficient national and regional markets.

Save the Children has partnered with a local bank in all four countries – Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal – to co-create savings accounts for these low-income teens.

Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) is a rapid market analysis designed to be used in the short-term aftermath of a sudden-onset crisis. This report uses the EMMA tool to analyze the beans market system in the Sud-Est (Southeast) department of Haiti in March-April 2010, several months after the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The report examines constraints in the beans market system, the earthquake-related disruptions that persist, and provides short-term and long-term recommendations.

This issue features an analysis of Cuba, Western Union’s thoughts on public-private partnerships, and new research on how skilled migrants promote home country development.

This FIELD Brief discusses FINCA’s recent study which explored the connections between food security and microfinance in two countries.

Presentation for After Hours Seminar #49 is provided in both English and Spanish.

Worldwide trends in remittance flows.