Through five working principles, USAID’s Rural Finance Initiative served as central change agents by providing highly customized advisory services, mixing expertise from the Colombian financial sector and the development community. This reached more than 750,000 rural clients and mobilize $999 million in financial services.
Resource - Technical Brief
This Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project (FS Share) paper examines how burdensome microeconomic policies can increase the cost and risk of lending and identify ways to remediate these barriers to facilitate financial sector development.
Resource - Paper
This report provides U.S. government program designers with a basic technical understanding of the core requirements to introduce finance secured by movable property, a tool used to increase access to finance, especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Resource - Paper
This agricultural lending toolkit outlines a package of resources to support banks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other emerging economies to increase their comfort with and capacity to extend agricultural lending.
Resource - Toolkit
USAID’s Asia and Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices Project and the bureau’s technical support teams worked to identify country priorities, capture and disseminate best practices, and pilot innovative technologies and approaches to enable more-inclusive economic growth in Asia and the Middle East.
Resource - Project Report
USAID’s Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program focused on raising access of small businesses to business development services. As a result of these efforts, more than 10,900 micro, small, and medium businesses were assisted and 22,000 jobs were created, 48 percent of which went to women.
Resource - Project Report
A follow-on project of USAID’s economic policy reforms in Mongolia, the Business Plus Initiative was formed to enable the private sector, improve the capacity of government and business organizations, and expand dialogue to include business stakeholders and community understanding of the reform agenda.
Resource - Project Report
