Elizabeth Fustos

Senior Advisor, Strategy and Partnerships

Elizabeth Fustos has extensive expertise in the design and implementation of economic growth programs in Europe and Eurasia, Asia, and Africa, with a particular focus on partnership development with the private and public sectors, donors, academia,…

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USAID Philippines Strengthening Private Enterprise for the Digital Economy (SPEED) Activity

USAID’s Strengthening Private Enterprise for the Digital Economy (SPEED) activity works with the government and private sector to mobilize the digital economy for enterprise-led development and increase the participation of small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the digital economy
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Tara Sabre Collier

Practice Lead for Climate and Private Sector Engagement, Chemonics UK

Tara Sabre Collier is the Practice Lead for Climate and Private Sector Engagement at Chemonics UK. A sustainable finance advisor to governments and development finance institutions, Tara also leads the Chemonics UK-led MOBILIST policy platform and…

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Dany Khy

Senior Advisor, Private Sector Engagement

Dany Khy is a senior international development professional with more than 16 years of experience leading programs in economic development with a focus on entrepreneurship, finance, and forging innovative public-private partnerships in the world’s largest emerging…

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Razan Quossous

Deputy Chief of Party and Commercial Sector Lead, Recycling in Jordan Activity

Razan Quossous is an economic growth expert with more than 20 years of experience in the sector. Razan currently serves as the deputy chief of party and commercial sector lead for the USAID Recycling in Jordan Activity.…

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Establishing an Enabling Environment for Financial Sector Development

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.
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Financial Sector Series #10: Establishing Modern Secured Financing Systems in Developing Economies

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).
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Final Report: Championing Economic Growth Best Practices in Asia and the Middle East – Asia and Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices

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.
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Isaiah Oliver

Deputy Chief of Party - Partnerships, Climate Finance for Development Accelerator

Isaiah Oliver is a private sector engagement, trade and investment, and climate finance expert with more than 13 years of experience focusing on the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, and Latin America. He has conducted…

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Farrukh Khan

Chief of Party, Pakistan Small and Medium Size Enterprise Activity

Farrukh Khan is a private sector development leader with over 25 years of experience leading Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) development, competitive enhancement, and business enabling environment activities in Pakistan. He holds 19 years of experience…

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Final Report: Mongolia Business Plus Initiative

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.
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