Access to financial products and services can be a key enabler to enhancing women’s economic empowerment and livelihoods. This scoping paper explores integration of gender-transformative approaches to financial inclusion ...

“Poverty Stoplight” is both a metric and a methodology. Program staff works directly with families in poor communities to complete an easy-to-use, picture-based survey to evaluate poverty levels across a variety of dimensions ...

The article introduces the concept of regenerative enterprises, defined as ecologically-embedded businesses that restore and regenerate degraded natural ecosystems, while building resilience and wellbeing of local communities. ...

The collaboration between BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities) and CEGA (Center for Effective Global Action) helped to share BRAC learnings with a wide research and development community and contributed to BRAC’s ...

The paper reports on and summarizes four country case studies (Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa) in terms of: the degree and extent of economic complexity; a detailed product space analysis; firm interviews to identify ...

La création du Programme de troisième cycle interuniversitaire en économie (PTCI) répond au souci de réduire les inefficacités internes et externes du système d'enseignement supérieur en Afrique francophone; lesquelles ...

As elsewhere, women in China are primarily responsible for care work, keeping family members nourished and healthy, and taking care of children, the elderly, and the sick. Using data from ten national representative surveys ...

This study illustrates how quality of contract enforcement institutions affects decision-making of entrepreneurs. Business enterprises are enabled to flourish through improvements in the role of legal institutions in ...