This project will focus on inclusive finance in fragile countries in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting quality research, capacity development, and policy engagement.
This project seeks to inform strategies and policies on youth employment by examining the job creation potential of industries without smokestacks, such as agriculture, the service sector, tourism, and information and communication technology-base
South Africa’s youth unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world — by some estimates it stands at 52%.
The project seeks to document the gaps and the challenges faced by women-led businesses, as well as the social and financing impact, if any, that various actors are able to create through Gender Lens Investing, i.e.
Financial inclusion is an enabler for women’s economic empowerment. Improved financial access can facilitate consumption, mitigate risks, increase investment in businesses and households, and accumulate assets.
This project seeks to examine the links between women's economic empowerment, women's paid work, and their unpaid care responsibilities.
While including a wider range of clients in the provision of financial services in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa has seen significant progress, marginalized women and youth are still left out — even where mobile money penetration (the use o
This project will support the scaling up of locally-tested interventions aimed at improving the livelihoods of women and youth in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
The lack of transformation in economic structures poses a significant challenge to Africa’s sustained growth, as well as its ability to tackle youth un/underemployment and close gender gaps.
This project will support the building of leaders of today and tomorrow in West Africa, a region where capacity for economic research and management remains very limited.