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While Zambia witnessed sustained economic growth since the early 2000s, this has not translated to improved livelihoods and well-being of the poor especially in rural areas with overall poverty stagnating around 50 percent (LCMS 2015). This is likely to have been exacerbated recently with the weakening of the economy, growing at about 1.7 percent in 2019. Rural women, and female headed…

In the past decade, the Government of Egypt has undertaken a series of transformative economic reforms aimed at accelerating growth and ensuring macroeconomic stability. However, although the country has succeeded in strengthening the economy, this has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the cost of living, which has had some adverse socioeconomic impacts, especially on vulnerable…

Read this PEI Result Story 2022 on how the Government of Bangladesh, with support from the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI) and in collaboration with the World Bank and various other stakeholders, has been able to achieve a groundbreaking moment in scaling up economic inclusion in the country.

The Government of Panama is working diligently on tackling these inequalities, with a focus on social protection programming as one of the main tools to overcome the inequities facing the Indigenous Peoples. Recently, the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) introduced Cohesión Social – a productive inclusion intervention with the support of the World Bank and the Partnership for Economic…

The Government of Zambia has an ambitious vision to build an inclusive economy that “provides opportunities for the well-being of all.” The World Bank is supporting this agenda through the Girls’ Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihoods (GEWEL) project, which, among other interventions, is testing an innovative approach around economic inclusion programming to increase poor women’s…

2022 will be remembered as a period of significant global challenge. As COVID-19 continued, the world grappled with the fall-out of overlapping crises, climate change, and price instability. Extremely poor and vulnerable people continue to be the most severely impacted. As governments consider viable options to address extreme poverty, the scale-up of economic inclusion programs is as critical…