IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/wbk/wbpubs/42408.html

The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2024

Author

Listed:
  • Inés Arévalo-Sánchez
  • Janet Heisey
  • Sarang Chaudhary
  • Timothy Clay
  • Victoria Strokova
  • Puja Vasudeva Dutta
  • Colin Andrews

Abstract

The State of Economic Inclusion Report (SEI) 2024 explores efforts to scale up economic inclusion programs - bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets - in the context of overlapping crisis. These programs transform the economic lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people, building their resilience and creating job opportunities. The report features data from 405 programs across 88 countries, benefiting over 70 million individuals either directly or indirectly. This marks almost doubling in the number of programs and nearly a 50 percent increase in coverage since the SEI 2021 report. Governments continue to lead in scaling up these economic inclusion programs, covering nearly three-fourths of program participants. However, non-governmental programs have also significantly contributed to the increase in coverage in recent years, in addition to serving as both service providers and capacity building providers for governments. The report offers five important contributions: 1) Positioning economic inclusion programs as crucial for building resilience and providing job opportunities for the poor and vulnerable in the face of overlapping crises. 2) Analyzing the global landscape over the past three years, highlighting the extent to which economic inclusion programs are being customized for diverse contexts and groups, including a cross-cutting focus on gender. 3) Reviewing progress and challenges in the design and implementation of government-led programs, including the interplay with communities, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. 4) Examining the emerging agenda of designing economic inclusion programs to enhance the long-term climate resilience of poor and vulnerable individuals and communities. 5) Featuring three spotlights that unpack emerging evidence from government-led programs, customization strategies targeting youth, and the increasing role of digital tools and technologies in program delivery. Data from the report are available on the PEI Data Portal (www.peiglobal.org).

Suggested Citation

  • Inés Arévalo-Sánchez & Janet Heisey & Sarang Chaudhary & Timothy Clay & Victoria Strokova & Puja Vasudeva Dutta & Colin Andrews, 2024. "The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2024," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 42408.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:42408
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/4f94ee11-7ff7-48c5-954d-e8ad37083572/download
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Milazzo, Annamaria & Grosh, Margaret, 2008. "Social safety nets in World Bank lending and analytical work : FY2002 - 2007," The Social Policy and Labor Discussion Paper Series 44730, The World Bank.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sarzin, Zara Inga, 2025. "Advancing the Jobs Agenda : Toward Self-Reliance in Refugee Situations," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11246, The World Bank.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Colin Andrews & Adea Kryeziu & Dahye Seo, 2014. "World Bank Support for Social Safety Nets 2007-2013 : A Review of Financing, Knowledge Services, and Results," World Bank Publications - Reports 20034, The World Bank Group.
    2. Andrews, Colin & Kryeziu, Adea & Seo, Dahye, 2014. "World Bank support for social safety nets 2007-2013 : a review of financing, knowledge services, and results," The Social Policy and Labor Discussion Paper Series 90187, The World Bank.
    3. Barrett , Christopher B & Carter , Michael R & Ikegami , Munenobu, 2008. "Poverty traps and social protection," The Social Policy and Labor Discussion Paper Series 42752, The World Bank.
    4. Armando Barrientos & David Hulme, 2009. "Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Quiet Revolution," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(4), pages 439-456.
    5. Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf & Assimaidou, Kossi & Tall, Abdoulaye, 2017. "Social protection for poverty reduction in times of crisis," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 39(6), pages 1163-1183.
    6. Milan Vodopivec & Primoz Dolenc:, 2008. "Live Longer, Work Longer: Making It Happen in the Labor Market," Financial Theory and Practice, Institute of Public Finance, vol. 32(1), pages 65-81.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:42408. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tal Ayalon The email address of this maintainer does not seem to be valid anymore. Please ask Tal Ayalon to update the entry or send us the correct address (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dvewbus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.