Finance

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 for infrastructure, which enable market-led development. Catalyzing private financing requires an ecosystem approach that includes the financial sector infrastructure itself. This topic includes: inclusive financial services, mobilizing private capital, and digital finance.

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From Access to Usage: Digital Financial Inclusion of Smallholder Farmers in Guatemala’s Western Highlands

September 1, 2020
Despite the fact that Guatemala is an upper-middle-income country, almost 60 percent of the population lives in poverty. Agriculture is one of Guatemala’s main economic drivers; it has employed at least one in three Guatemalans since 2000; and in 2018, the agriculture value added was ten percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
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Why Financing Alone Cannot Build Resilience: Lessons from Northern Kenya

September 23, 2022
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Post-Event Resources: Platform Work and Financial Inclusion: How Can the Development Community Extend Finance for Gig Workers?

August 30, 2022
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Reaping the Benefits of Agribusiness Financial Products: The Experience of a Rwandan MFI

August 25, 2022
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USAID’s Mobilizing Finance for Development Course

February 8, 2022
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Digitizing and Contracting Private Practices to Sustain Family Planning: Lessons from Kenya

December 2, 2021
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Horizon Kenya: Exploring trends set to shape the future in Kenya

November 2, 2021
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Adaptive Management

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

Economics

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

Employment

Inclusive economic growth creates opportunities for all people to engage through their labor and assets to meet market demand.

Enabling Environment

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

Market Facilitation

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

Markets and Trade

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.

Markets in Crises

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

Private Sector Engagement

Working with the private sector enables donor agencies and nongovernmental organizations to achieve greater scale, effectiveness, and sustainable outcomes.

Resilience

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

Women’s Economic Empowerment

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

Youth

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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