Women’s economic empowerment is everybody’s business. Sustainable, inclusive development requires that everyone, women included, have equal access to opportunities, employment, education, and services and are equally represented in positions of power and decision making. Women account for

Small businesses in Samoa are essential to a diversified and sustainable economy that focuses, in the Polynesian way, on community-based and community-owned development. In the pandemic recovery, small businesses will power sustainable food security, revitalised tourism, business growth, labour

For nearly anyone transforming an innovative concept into a profit-making enterprise, entrepreneurship is literally “risky business.” Starting a company often requires money, time, networks, and expertise far beyond an entrepreneur’s early expectations and best-laid plans. Even in economies that actively

While battling the COVID-19 Pandemic, a new animal killing disease also emerged in Papua New Guinea: African Swine Fever. Like other pig farmers in the Upper Highlands, Grace Mark, who lives in the Jiwaka Province, was at risk of losing her livelihood. A single mother with two children, Grace is a

Now employing more than 100 people, Atela Yee’s bakery is always open to customers. With the COVID-19 pandemic, overnight business is slow, but a cup of tea and a slice are always available through the side window for taxi drivers and shift workers who have a permit to move around during the curfew.

As the COVID-19 pandemic finally begins to recede, developing economies will need all worthy tools at their disposal as they move toward greater economic productivity and opportunity. The transformative powers of digital technology will be at the heart of these efforts: digital interventions can help