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1 January 2019
SDC Thematic Working Aid: Employment & Income
There are 800 million people living below the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day. They are primarily rural (80 per cent),...
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1 January 2019
There are 800 million people living below the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day. They are primarily rural (80 per cent),...
12 June 2018
Published by: IDS
This primer is designed to help programmes that aim to build participation into economic decision-making to better understand what ‘participation’ means.
1 January 2018
Innovation, accompanied by structural change, is at the heart of economic growth and development. Yet there is limited evidence to...
1 January 2018
Innovation, accompanied by structural change, is at the heart of economic growth and development. Yet there is limited evidence to understand interactions between innovation, structural change and inclusion in the context of low-income and emerging countries, or how these processes best support sustainable and inclusive societies.
8 October 2017
This paper is about making agricultural value chains work for smallholder farmers, and the way that governments can achieve this aim...
1 October 2017
How do public–private collaborations enable secure and inclusive rural economies? Alongside private sector investment, government provision of infrastructure, research and extension services and support for farmer organisations remains crucial.
1 September 2017
This paper looks at the role of public-private collaborations, specifically public-private partnerships (PPPs), in enabling secure and inclusive rural economies.
1 March 2017
Published by: IDS
The achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals will depend on the ways in which states and businesses engage with one another. While state–business interactions can take many forms, they inherently involve processes of negotiation through which actors in both camps pursue their own interests.
1 January 2017
In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the role that markets and the private sector play in development, and interest to understand how development actors may most effectively support ‘inclusive economies’. What is missing, however, is a systematic analysis of what it takes for market-based approaches to include the most marginalised e.g. those with disability.
1 January 2017
Published by: Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación
Following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda of ‘leave no one behind’, this article argues for a new way of thinking about markets andthe private sector that addresses these new challenges. It introduces market systems development (MSD) as a new approach for engaging with the private sector using complexity and systems thinking. By understanding better the role and limits of market-ba