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Today, YouthSave’s core , Carolina Trivelli was  as Peru’s Minister of Social Inclusion. The newly formed Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion is charged with planning and implementing the country’s pro-poor programs for marginalized communities who have not benefited from Peru’s increasing economic growth.

Ms. Trivelli, an esteemed economist, comes to the Ministry having served as a researcher and Director General of . Among Trivelli’s many accomplishments at IEP, she also co-managed , an initiative to link conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs with financial inclusion strategies. A recent report by the Global Assets Project highlights Ms. Trivelli’s valuable insights on this emerging concept, which she shared during our Savings-linked CCT last November.

With an expertise in rural poverty and development finance, Trivelli has been one of eight advisors on ’s learning agenda (led by the ) since the Project’s inception. We congratulate her on this exciting news and express our gratitude for her contributions to YouthSave!