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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),...

Participation in Economic Decision-Making: A Primer

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.

Inclusive Structural Change: Case Studies on Innovations in Breeding Practices in Kenya and Anti-Retroviral Therapy Service Provision in Mozambique

Innovation, accompanied by structural change, is at the heart of economic growth and development. Yet there is limited evidence to...

Inclusive Structural Change: Case Studies on Innovations in Breeding Practices in Kenya and Anti-Retroviral Therapy Service Provision in Mozambique

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.

Procedural Justice in Value Chains Through Public–private Partnerships

This paper is about making agricultural value chains work for smallholder farmers, and the way that governments can achieve this aim...

Public–Private Cooperation for Secure and Inclusive Rural Economies

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.

Public-Private Collaborations: Can they Deliver Secure and Inclusive Rural Economies?

This paper looks at the role of public-private collaborations, specifically public-private partnerships (PPPs), in enabling secure and inclusive rural economies.

How Do State–Business Relations Shape Sustainable Development?

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.

A Typology of Market-based Approaches to Include the Most Marginalised

Published by: IDS

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.

Using Systems Thinking to Reach the Poor through Markets

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