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Developing new responses to unemployment.

It is not just banks in emerging markets that should grab this opportunity. Western banks will find innovative practices that they can use to refresh and adapt their traditional banking models back home. Read more
Developing new responses to unemployment.
Actionable recommendations to fill the financial services gap.
A factbase and policy framework that adds to the national conversation about jobs in the U.S.
21millionThe United States needs 21 million new jobs to return to 5% unemployment by 2020.
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Vietnam’s economy has come an extraordinarily long way in a short time. China is the only Asian economy that has grown faster since 2000. But Vietnam now needs to boost labor productivity growth by more than 50 percent to maintain its rapid growth.
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Using increased computing power and new sources of information and data (including mobile-phone usage patterns, utility-bill payment history, and others) to build better risk models.
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In advance of the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, McKinsey partnered with Devex to determine how professionals in the development community view the effectiveness of their own agencies and the development sector overall.
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Developing-country governments have an important role to play in creating an environment for economic growth. The best results happen when those efforts are tailored by industry sector.
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Even the most efficient organizations are ill prepared for earthquakes and similar disasters. Our experience in Haiti and other disaster zones suggests that seven lessons about management, processes, and networks can make a difference when lives are on the line.
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Colombia’s example shows how faster economic development can result from collaboration by the private and public sectors to orchestrate microlevel reforms and foster innovation to compete in global markets.
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Assessing the financing gap for micro, small, and medium-size enterprises in developing countries.
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Achieving full financial inclusion at the intersection of social benefit and economic sustainability.
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The next decade will likely mark the first since the industrial revolution when emerging economies add more to global growth than all the developed countries combined. In our view, Africa will be a core part of this economic renaissance.
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A What Matters collection of the latest global thinking from outside experts and McKinsey consultants.
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This report presents a case for why and how the private sector should intensify its engagement in the economic empowerment of women in developing countries.
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It is not just banks in emerging markets that should grab this opportunity. Western banks will find innovative practices that they can use to refresh and adapt their traditional banking models back home.
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Discussing the potential for the adoption of an electronic payment system in India, which could reduce payment inefficiencies estimated to be Rs. 1 lakh crone annually (US$22.4 billion).
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Lessons from an innovative financial inclusion partnership in Mexico that created a platform to provide access to government benefits and financial services for the hardest to reach of Mexico’s rural poor.
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A comprehensive study of the causes of income dispersion in the United States and the growing human capital challenge.
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New research finds that more than half the world’s adults do not use formal or semi-formal financial services to save or borrow.
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In India, there are a number of areas where innovation can encourage private, public, and social sector participation in order to take financial inclusion to scale.
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