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The Partnership for Economic Inclusion was formed to help tackle one of the most stubborn challenges in development—advancing the economic inclusion of vulnerable households in extreme poverty.  

Read our 2023 Annual Report to learn how PEI is…

2022 will be remembered as a period of significant global challenge. As COVID-19 continued, the world grappled with the fall-out of overlapping crises, climate change, and price instability. Extremely poor and vulnerable people continue to be the most severely impacted. As governments consider viable options to address extreme poverty, the scale-up of economic inclusion programs is as critical…

The Government of Zambia has an ambitious vision to build an inclusive economy that “provides opportunities for the well-being of all.” The World Bank is supporting this agenda through the Girls’ Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihoods (GEWEL) project, which, among other interventions, is testing an innovative approach around economic inclusion programming to increase poor women’s…

The Government of Panama is working diligently on tackling these inequalities, with a focus on social protection programming as one of the main tools to overcome the inequities facing the Indigenous Peoples. Recently, the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) introduced Cohesión Social – a productive inclusion intervention with the support of the World Bank and the Partnership for Economic…

Read this PEI Result Story 2022 on how the Government of Bangladesh, with support from the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI) and in collaboration with the World Bank and various other stakeholders, has been able to achieve a groundbreaking moment in scaling up economic inclusion in the country.

In the past decade, the Government of Egypt has undertaken a series of transformative economic reforms aimed at accelerating growth and ensuring macroeconomic stability. However, although the country has succeeded in strengthening the economy, this has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the cost of living, which has had some adverse socioeconomic impacts, especially on vulnerable…

While Zambia witnessed sustained economic growth since the early 2000s, this has not translated to improved livelihoods and well-being of the poor especially in rural areas with overall poverty stagnating around 50 percent (LCMS 2015). This is likely to have been exacerbated recently with the weakening of the economy, growing at about 1.7 percent in 2019. Rural women, and female headed…

Established in April 2019, The Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI) just completed a foundational period as a World Bank Group (WBG) Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF). It is now moving into a period of consolidation, relying on an ambitious strategy charted for 2021–26. Because the overall direction and mission of PEI continues to be highly relevant to the existing poverty context and because…

The Partnership for Economic Inclusion 2021 Annual Report details the operational activities of the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI) Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) from July 2020 through June 2021. It has been a pivotal year for PEI, establishing efforts to support the scale up of government-led economic inclusion, in partnership with diverse stakeholders, funding partners and World…

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.

The report provides a global assessment on the state of economic inclusion programs that reach the extreme poor and vulnerable. …