Employment

Employment

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Inclusive economic growth creates opportunities for all people to engage through their labor and assets to meet market demand. This topic includes: entrepreneurship and self-employment, workforce development, and labor mobility and matching.

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September 22, 2020

When economically empowered, women reinvest in their communities — leading to greater self-reliance, prosperity, and food security. To support these outcomes, the development community should adopt high-impact initiatives for female entrepreneurs in the agriculture sector.

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Thoughtful monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes allow for programmatic shifts to increase effectiveness and improve results.

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Approaches to economic growth should start with analysis, consider public and private contributions, and leverage possibilities across all sectors.

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Market actors respond to the opportunities and constraints shaped by rules and norms at the global, national, or local levels.

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Market participation requires a range of financial solutions and investments to meet the needs of individuals, households, and firms as well as to meet national and sub-national financing requirements...

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Market facilitation catalyzes market actors to create durable change for more competitive, inclusive, and resilient market systems.

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The ability of individual firms to enter, compete, grow, and engage in value chains locally or internationally is what drives market development and economic growth.

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Working with and through markets can help speed recovery and limit economic impact during and after disasters.

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Sustainable poverty escapes require enabling vulnerable people to manage and mitigate risks while ensuring shocks and stresses don’t undermine development gains.

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Women’s economic empowerment exists when women can equitably participate in, contribute to, and benefit from economic opportunities as workers, consumers, entrepreneurs, and investors.

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Young people need opportunities for education, jobs, and income. Strategies that empower and engage youth economically contribute to growth and poverty reduction.

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