Angola is a middle-income country, but it has high poverty and vulnerability levels. In urban areas, households living in poverty or vulnerable to poverty are significantly more likely to be women-headed...
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...
Angola is a middle-income country, but it has high poverty and vulnerability levels. In 2019, Angola had a total population of about 30.8 million people of which 32 percent (9.8 million people) lived below...
This report reviews the experiences of market linkage programs implemented globally, particularly those focused on poor smallholders, including women, as beneficiaries and farmers who participated in government...
This report presents the findings of a process evaluation for the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) urban cash intervention (CUCI) program. The CUCI was initiated by the Government of Malawi in 2020...
The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021: The Potential to Scale gives voice to one of the most stubborn challenges in development—transforming the economic lives of the extreme poor and vulnerable...
What has the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic been on poverty in Zambia, and how can social protection programs mitigate these effects? This paper estimates the pre-pandemic poverty level in Zambia and...
This paper analyzes global evidence on the impact and costs of economic inclusion programs to transform the economic lives of households and communities living in extreme poverty. The analysis uses 107...