Archive of Theme: Access to Finance

Supporting Digital-Focused Investment into Emerging Markets

Supporting Digital-Focused Investment into Emerging Markets

Supporting Digital-Focused Investment into Emerging Markets

The investment gap for internet connectivity alone is over $428 billion globally and there is a need to ensure investments are directed toward building open, inclusive, and secure digital infrastructure and services. In April 2022, USAID’s Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub Digital Invest, launched a new blended finance program - Digital Invest - that seeks to mobilise private capital for digital finance and internet service Read More

Increasing access to finance for formal and informal businesses in Jordan

Increasing access to finance for formal and informal businesses in Jordan

Informal Livelihoods Advancement Activity (Iqlaa) is a five-year USAID-funded program supporting Jordan's Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). Iqlaع aims to meet the immediate needs of formal and informal MSEs following the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, while building stable foundations from which Read More

Advancing Policy to Integrate Arab Youth into their Economies

Advancing Policy to Integrate Arab Youth into their Economies

Arab youth have among the lowest levels of financial inclusion in the world. We were engaged by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion to conduct a special report on the landscape of youth financial inclusion in the Arab region as part Read More