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The Road More Traveled: Upgrading Ukraine’s Land and Rail Border Crossing Points

Future-Proofing Export Success for Developing Countries

How Data Analysis, Community Engagement, and GIS Delivered a Reliable Water Source to an Afghan Community

How to Get Humanitarian and Development Actors to Work Together for Refugees

Integrating Market Systems Development and the Graduation Approach in Uganda

Webinar: Ukraine Should Strongly Prioritize EU Accession to Support Rapid Business Growth

Q&A with Public Finance Expert Nádia Hassamo: An Inside Look at Mozambique’s Path to Development

How an Approach to Crisis in Jordan Transformed into Sustained Institutional Change

Opening the Taps of Credit: Lessons from a Credit Pilot in a High-Conflict Zone in Eastern DRC

From Fragmentation to Resilience: Ukraine's Non-Banking Sector Looks to a Stronger Future

Making Markets Work for Refugee and Host Communities in Ethiopia

Q&A with SPEED’s Fabio Scala: Helping the Government of Mozambique Drive Reforms to Bolster the Economy

Boosting Ukrainian Grain Exports for Global Food Security

Bringing Together Refugees, Host Communities, and the Private Sector in Ethiopia

Regional Trade Bolsters Southern Africa’s Economic Outlook

There Are 42,000 Young People Ready to Lead Tanzania’s Economic Growth

Gender-Smart Investing: The Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund

Facilitating Gender-Smart Investing

ICAI Highlights AWEF Success Factors Relevant to Employment Programming

EU Forest Project in Liberia Tackles Deforestation and Paves the Way for Stability

USAID Projects Work Together to Bolster Trade between Pakistan and Central Asia

Zimbabwe Agriculture Project Finds Ways to Engage Smallholder Farmers, Despite COVID-19

Building Bridges to a Better Future for Vulnerable Young Salvadorans

DAI hosts ANDE West Africa Workshop: How Incubators & Accelerators Can Build Corporate Partnerships

Market System Lens Pays Dividends for Northern Haiti’s Cacao Sector

Trade in the Time of COVID-19—Risk or Opportunity?

Oman’s Journey to In-Country Value: An Approach to Local Content that Works for Government and the Private Sector

Empowering Women: Lessons from COVID-19 and Beyond

A Digital Tool to Get the World Moving Again

Commercializing Agricultural Innovations in the Age of COVID-19

Stay the Course: A Decade of Focus on Economic Reforms Pays off in Ukraine

How Donor-Funded Economic Growth Projects are Adapting to the Challenges of COVID-19

How High-impact Businesses in Emerging Markets Are Pivoting in the COVID-19 Crisis

How Can Digital Financial Services be Utilised in Response to COVID-19?

How EuropeAid’s Pakistan BRACE Programme is Engaging Communities in the COVID-19 Era

USAID-Supported Enterprise in Ukraine Repairs Lung Ventilators for Use in COVID-19 Crisis

How Can We Support the Private Sector in Vulnerable and Developing Economies Following COVID-19?

Avoiding Credit Risk Contagion in Frontier and Emerging Economies

Transitioning a Supply Base from Offshore Oil and Gas to Marine Renewables

How COVID-19 is Highlighting Inequality, and the Role for Social Protection

COVID-19: Low-Cost Solutions to Maintain Engagement with Local Partners in the Supply Chain

In Guatemala, New Research on Gender Equality Shapes Government and USAID Investments in Taxation

Strengthening Women’s Control Over Land: Inheritance Reform in Tunisia

The Complexity of Building a Market for Certified Seeds: A Case Study from Mozambique

New Research Offers Alternatives for Frontier Market Venture Capital and Private Equity

Adopting a Private Sector-led Approach to Advance Digital Startups in Cambodia

To Go Where We’re Going, We Need to Meet Investors Where They Live

Paving the Way for Green Energy Financing in the Mediterranean

Investments in Off-Grid Energy Businesses Are Bringing Electricity to Hundreds of Thousands in Kenya

Using a Market Systems Approach to Curb Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration in Nigeria

EU Investment Guarantees Begin to Deliver on the Promise of Development Finance

Improving Safety Net Programmes to Include Those Most Vulnerable to Climate Change

Hard-Fought Wins Reaffirm the Value of Working with Palestine’s Private Sector

Lebanon’s Cornucopia: Value Chain Project Unleashes Potential of 10 Sectors

Three Ways to Make Hiring More Inclusive of Vulnerable Youth: Lessons from El Salvador

In El Salvador, Shifting Employer Perceptions While Getting Youth Work-Ready

In El Salvador, Outsourcing Remote Programming Jobs to Youth Outside the Capital

Getting Creative with Transportation for El Salvador’s Young Job-Seekers

Now More Competitive, Jordan’s Pharmaceuticals See Healthy Jump in Exports

INVEST: On the Frontier of Gender-Lens Investing

Improving Livestock Markets to Generate Economic Growth and Resilience in East Africa

Why the Time is Right for Access for All

Can Online Dispute Resolution Change the Way Global MSMEs Do Business?

Beyond Boundaries: How Secure Land Tenure is Improving Lives in Rural Tanzania

Demand for Private Capital Draws USAID Units to INVEST Program

Jordan Embraces Renewables to Fuel its Economy

Placing Women at the Center of Water Supply Management in Kenya

Using Market-Driven Strategies to Reduce Poverty and Human Trafficking in Nigeria

DFID Programme Helps Establish Business Equipment Leasing in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Largest Country

Africa Trading: Five Takeaways on Trade-Based Solutions for Food Security

Four Recommendations for Strengthening Seed Systems

New Generation of EC Framework Contracts Offers Agile Programming for European Development Aid

Addressing Jordan’s Youth Unemployment Bubble: USAID Program Aligns Workforce with Emerging Opportunities

Can We Keep the Promise? Mobilizing Business on the Refugee Frontline in Jordan

With U.K. Aid, Lebanon’s Social Enterprises Pilot a New Model of Development

How Can Nigeria Fulfill its Broad Economic Potential?

Ethiopia Stands Poised to Lead an African Industrial Revolution

$36 Million Investment Partnership Finances Warehouses in Malawi to Improve Food Security

In Nigeria, Governance Champions Can Transform Resource Wealth into Development Results

EC Helps Position the Southern Africa Development Community for 21st Century Success

New Zealand Aid Helps Rwandan Smallholders Enter Fortified Foods Supply Chain

EU Funds Totaling €4.1 Billion Aim to Boost Investment, Private Sector Engagement in Africa and European Neighbourhood Countries

Sourcing the Wadi: How Palestinian Workers Are Filling Niche Needs in Israel’s IT Sector

Messe Frankfurt’s Purchase of Source Africa Trade Show Exemplifies the Potential of Market Systems Development

Q&A: Unlocking Inclusive Economic Growth for Mozambicans by Building a Market for Digital Financial Inclusion

Cold Storage Expansion Drives Market Development in Uzbekistan

Using Development Assistance to Catalyze Sound Investments in Emerging and Developing Markets

PolSEFF’s Legacy: Lower Energy Bills for Businesses Across Poland; a Financing Model to Scale and Replicate

Making Land Rights Real

$93 Million Grain Deal Between East African Countries Demonstrates How the Region Can Feed Itself

Public-Private Partnerships for Land Administration: Can It Work in Cabo Verde?

Despite Regional Instability, Lebanon’s Honey Sector Reaches New Heights

Unlocking Capital: How USAID Pushed the Frontier of Financial Services and Built a Foundation for Economic Growth in Kenya

Six Ways to Mitigate Instability in Central America

Onshore Fish Farms Flourish in Gaza

Market Systems Development Boosts Farming, Nutrition in Bangladesh’s Southern Delta

Learning From Local Content Policies: Insights From a Study of Six Resource-Rich Countries

Applying Market Systems Approaches to Financial Inclusion Projects

Chevron’s Nigerian Initiative Found to Decrease Business Risk, Attract Local Investment, and Bring Hope

Unveiling a New Methodology for Measuring Market Systems and Their Impact on Local Development

Agriculture Goes Prime Time: Enthralling a TV Audience of Future Farmers

Unlocking Local Content: Harnessing the Power of Data-Driven Decision Making

A Good Use of U.S. Taxpayer Money: Helping Countries Mobilize Domestic Resources

Savings Groups Enabling Hundreds of Smallholders in Mozambique to Buy Certified Seed

How Savings Groups Assist the Poor and Support Broader Development Goals

Discovering Pathways to Economic Growth in Somalia, Discreetly

Improving Nutrition While Easing the Workload on Women

The Future of Mobile Money: Traditional Banks, B2B, and the User’s Perspective

Getting Back to Business in Post-Conflict Gaza

Growing a Global Network of Microfinance Practitioners

Philippines Experiences Nearly Seven-Fold Increase in Electronic Tax Filing

Market-Driven Productivity Increases in Mozambique’s Soya Sector

Growing the Lesotho Garment Industry

Enhancing Productivity in Nigerian Aquaculture

Market Systems Development: A Primer on Pro-Poor Programming

Uniting Tajikistan’s Farmers to Fix Broken Irrigation Systems

Invigorating Business Reform in Resource-Rich Mozambique

Serving the Missing Middle

Fiscal Reform and the Struggle for Stability in Jordan

How Banks Can Help Businesses Reduce Their Energy Costs

Monitoring Our Assumptions

Group Savings in Tanzania Helping the HIV-Affected Poor

We Need Disruption in Financial Inclusion

Pro-Poor Business Law and Regulatory Reform

Market Trends and Resilience

The Macroeconomic Resilience of Nations

Building Economic Resilience Among the Poor

Reforming Business Policy in Mozambique from the Inside

Calculating the Fiscal Cost to Jordan of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

The Partnership Fund

Natural Resource Conservation through Electronic Hotel Reservations

To Unlock Job Growth in Egypt, Fix the “Micro-BEE”

Three Things That Really Mattered to Developing the Youth Workforce in Serbia’s Down Economy

Facilitating e-Banking in the Philippines

Mining for Answers: Mozambique Weighs Options for a Practical, Profitable Local Content Policy

Incentive for Moroccan Farmers to Conserve Water? Increased Incomes

In Sub-Saharan Africa, It’s Time to Recognize Customary Land Rights

Fiscal Project Helps Jordan Issue $1.25 Billion Bond, Saving Millions for Development

Competitiveness-Driven Growth: CIBER Process Breaks Barriers for Moldovan Entrepreneurs

The Service Provider Spectrum: From Microfinance to Financial Inclusion

Savings Groups and Financial Inclusion

Rwandan National Park Project Honored as World’s Best by British Travel Writers

Philippine City Launches Mobile Payment Pilot

Unleashing Cambodian Technical Knowledge

Mobile Services for the Unbanked: Finding a Viable Commercial Model

Microinsurance: Does it Pay Off for the Poor?

Inexpensive Mobile Platform Connects Agribusinesses to Work Together Better

How to Unlock the Potential of Mobile Money

Financial Inclusion: A Wealth of Perspectives

Financial Education: Time for a Re-Think?

Does Microfinance Work?

Business Booms for Farmers Who Solved Supply Problem for Top Regional Business

Beyond Financial Inclusion

Benefits of Bringing Mobile Banking to the Unbanked

Are the Pacific Islands Ripe for Mobile Money?

A New Financial Model: Putting the Individual at the Centre

A Cash-Lite World: Safe, Cheap, and Convenient Payments for All

USAID STAR Project Helped Propel Vietnam into the Global Economy

Helping a South African Mining Giant Invest for Results in its Local Communities

Competitiveness Initiative Simplifies Business in Vietnam

Project Improves Business Environment in Morocco in Midst of Political Upheaval

Project Helps Vietnam Cut Red Tape, Hone Competitiveness, and Boost Economic Growth

Doing More with Doing Business: Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index

Amplifying the Voice of Business to Drive Policy Reform in a Difficult Environment

In Niger Delta, Chevron Launches New Paradigm for Corporate Social Investment

Haitian Farmers See Increased Income While Better Managing Their Natural Resources

Market-Driven Approach Delivers Far-Reaching Results in Burundi