Feed the Future
This project is part of the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative.
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Discover content and resources related to market development, economic growth, and cross-cutting issues. Each topic below contains the most recent Marketlinks posts, events, and discussions tagged to that subject.

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A project participant and children from the community in the swamp drainage project in Nyalungana, S. Kivu. Credit: Tanya Martineau, Prospect Arts, Food for the Hungry.

Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) project

Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) project supports evidence-based, gender-sensitive programming to improve the economic security and related health outcomes of highly vulnerable individuals, families, and children.
Photo: Cambodia market.

Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)

Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) was a USAID-funded contract (2013-2016) to support programming that fosters inclusive growth through markets. LEO's learning agenda focused on inclusion and a systems approach to markets, advancing research and practice in inclusive market development.
Three female farm workers, Kusum, Suresh and Simla

Women’s Leadership in Small & Medium Enterprises (WLSME)

USAID's Women's Leadership in Small & Medium Enterprises (WLSME) initiative expanded the frontiers of this field to generate new learning about which interventions for women's entrepreneurship in SMEs work best in different developing country contexts. The resources on this site cover the external constraints, human capital constraints, information and network constraints, and risk challenges that businesswomen face.

Topics

Market Facilitation

  • Private sector engagement
  • Local ownership
  • Analytics and tactics

Markets and Trade

  • Competitiveness
  • Trade facilitation
  • Enterprise development

Markets in Crises

  • Market-based response
  • Supporting critical markets
  • Resilient livelihoods

Employment

  • Entrepreneurship & self-employment
  • Workforce development
  • Labor mobility and matching

Finance

  • Inclusive financial services
  • Mobilizing private capital
  • Digital finance

Resilience

  • Risk reduction, mitigation, & management
  • Adaptation to and recovery from shocks
  • Poverty dynamics

Women’s Economic Empowerment

  • Women’s leadership
  • Women’s wage employment
  • Women’s entrepreneurship

Youth

  • Youth empowerment
  • Youth employment & entrepreneurship
  • Youth financial inclusion

Adaptive Management

  • Collaborating, Learning, Adapting
  • Performance monitoring
  • Evaluation

Enabling Environment

  • Policy & regulatory reform
  • Institutional capacity
  • Informal rules & norms

Economics

  • Economic diagnostics
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Cross-sectoral integration

Opportunities

  • RFAs/RFPs
  • Job postings
  • Calls for submissions

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