State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021: The Potential to Scale

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Document Type: Reports and Assessments
Document Type: English
Publish Date: 20 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Upload Date: 22 January 2021 (3 years ago)
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State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021: The Potential to Scale

Document Type: Reports and Assessments
Document Language: English
The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 sheds light on one of the most intractable challenges faced by development policy makers and practitioners: transforming the economic lives of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. Economic inclusion programs are a bundle of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities so they can raise their incomes and build their assets. Programs targeting the extreme poor and vulnerable groups are now under way in 75 countries. This report presents data and evidence from 219 of these programs, which are reaching over 90 million beneficiaries. Governments now lead the scale-up of economic inclusion interventions, often building on pre-existing national programs such as safety nets, livelihoods and jobs, and financial inclusion, and 93 percent of the total beneficiaries are covered by government programs. The report offers four important contributions: • A detailed analysis of the nature of these programs, the people l

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  •  Livelihood & Social Stability
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