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  • Financial Pathways toward Greater Resilience and Economic Inclusion (English)

    Facilitating access to financial services is a core component of most economic inclusion programs, which aim to build resilience and create opportunities for poor and vulnerable households. These programs...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 198038 Document Date: March 26, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Serena Stepanovic,Ines Arevalo-Sanchez,Vidya Diwakar,Dan Gilligan

  • Working for Inclusion : Economic Inclusion in Contexts of Forced Displacement (English)

    Since 2012, the number of forcibly displaced people has more than doubled, reaching 89.3 million by the end of 2021. Ongoing conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, will result in even larger numbers...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184534 Document Date: August 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heisey,Janet M,Arevalo Sanchez,Ines,Taylor Bernagros,Alexi

  • Experiences in Linking Micro- and Smallholder Farmers to Markets (English)

    In Zambia, poverty remains high and largely concentrated in remote places, with an estimated poverty incidence of 76.5 percent in rural areas in 2015, and likely worsening since then. The bulk of the rural...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184531 Document Date: August 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sparkman,Timothy Patrick,Sackett,Jill Floyd,Avalos,Jorge Eduardo,Paul,Boban Varghese

  • Leveraging Behavioral Science to Increase the Impact of Economic Inclusion Programming (English)

    By incorporating an understanding of behavioral science into economic inclusion programming, governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seeking to bring millions out of poverty with limited resources...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184532 Document Date: August 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Datta,Saugato,Joshi,Mukta,MacLeod, Catherine,Zini,Michele Davide

  • A Standardized Approach to Estimating the Cost of Economic Inclusion Programs (English)

    Economic inclusion programs have become a key feature of national social protection systems around the world, with many actors scaling up and adapting approaches to match local contexts and reach different...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184533 Document Date: August 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chaudhary,Sarang,Brousset Chaman,Hugo Martin,Swatton, Jenny

  • Scaling Up Economic Inclusion Programs in Urban Areas (English)

    Urban centers are growing, with two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in urban centers by 2050; nearly ninety percent of this increase is in Asia and Africa. A rapidly urbanizing world...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184530 Document Date: August 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Avalos,Jorge Eduardo,Chaudhary,Sarang,Clay,Timothy Joseph Peter,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva

  • Moving Up the Ladder: Economic Inclusion of Safety Net Recipients in Bangladesh (English)

    Bangladesh has a history of effective economic inclusion programs, but they are implemented primarily by civil society organizations. Government-implemented initiatives are critical for scale but there...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184345 Document Date: July 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmed, S. Amer,Alaref,Jumana Jamal Subhi,Azam,Mehtab,Moqueet,Nazia Sultana,Saha,Jyotirmoy

  • A Standardized Approach to Estimating the Cost of Economic Inclusion Programs (English)

    Economic inclusion (EI) programs have become a key feature of national social protection systems globally and a large and growing body of evidence suggests that EI programming can increase the incomes...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 178464 Document Date: November 16, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chaudhary,Sarang,Brousset Chaman,Hugo Martin,Swatton, Jenny

  • Working for Inclusion : Economic Inclusion in Contexts of Forced Displacement (English)

    Since 2012, the number of forcibly displaced people has more than doubled, reaching 89.3 million by the end of 2021. Ongoing conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, will result in even larger numbers...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 172694 Document Date: June 14, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heisey,Janet M,Arevalo Sanchez,Ines,Taylor Bernagros,Alexi

  • Scaling Up Economic Inclusion Programs in Urban Areas (English)

    This PEI In Practice Brief provides an overview of volumes 1 and 2 of PEI In Practice on Economic Inclusion in urban areas. Links to both volumes are provided for additional reading.

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 170765 Document Date: April 21, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Avalos,Jorge Eduardo,Chaudhary,Sarang,Clay,Timothy Joseph Peter,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva

  • Operational Considerations for Urban Economic Inclusion Programming (English)

    This note is one of two designed to serve as a resource for policy makers and practitioners aiming to introduce or scale up economic inclusion programs in urban and peri-urban areas. The first note explores...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 168992 Document Date: February 14, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Clay,Timothy Joseph Peter,Avalos,Jorge Eduardo

  • In Practice : A Path to Jobs for the Urban Poor (English)

    A rapidly urbanizing world presents enormous economic opportunities for the poor and vulnerable but also presents significant barriers to their economic inclusion. About two thirds of the world’s population...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 166130 Document Date: November 17, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Avalos,Jorge Eduardo,Chaudhary,Sarang,Clay,Timothy Joseph Peter,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva