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November 29, 2024
Supporting the Resilience of Small Businesses in India: The Value of Flexible Funding During a Crisis
Evolving funding strategies we used to help companies overcome these unprecedented challenges.
September 24, 2024
Breaking Barriers: Harnessing Gender Lens Investments for Sustainable Impact and Inclusive Finance
The GLI recognizes gender-based disparities and directs capital.
September 24, 2024
Impact investing could entrench inequality without better monitoring
Measuring the outcomes of impact investing risk entrenching existing inequalities.
September 24, 2024
Accelerating the Adoption of Inclusive Business Models in Multinational Corporations: Challenges, Solutions and Success Stories
Prahalad and Hart’s vision of business as a tool for poverty alleviation.
September 24, 2024
Impact investing in clean energy storage: The future of sustainable energy
Impact investments are pivotal in combating climate change.
July 19, 2024
Founders vs. Funders: How the Two Sides of the Investing Relationship Can Foster More Effective Collaboration to Maximise Impact at Scale
Funders in the social impact space and founders of social ventures depend on one another to drive positive change at scale. The journey to scaling impact is non-linear, multifaceted and rife with challenges
March 13, 2024
Africa Must Take Charge of its Own Development Agenda: Here’s How Impact Investors Can Support It
Economies across Africa are facing some serious headwinds, from rising inflation and regional instability to a lack of foreign currency and the high cost of capital. According to McKinsey, Africa’s growth slowed from 2010-2019, and while the continent’s GDP increased…..
March 13, 2024
Impact Management Moves Toward Standardization: How Investors are Harmonizing Their Practices — And Where More Progress is Needed
mpact investors, especially development finance institutions (DFIs), are crucial for channeling investments into emerging markets and promoting sustainable economic growth and other positive development impacts…..
March 13, 2024
Insights to Impact: A weekly briefing on creating sustainable and inclusive growth
This digest offers insights that can help business decision makers identify new opportunities for innovation, growth, and impact…..
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06 Key Lessons for informing policy decisions: Mainstreaming tribal-specific climate adaptive capacities in vulnerable coastal regions within National Action Plan on Climate Change
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Four Key Lessons for Policy Consideration: Scaling Climate Adaptive Capacities among Small and Marginal Farming Communities in the Sundarbans
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Five Key Lessons for Policy Consideration: Scaling Climate Action Programs for Landless Rural Communities in Semi-Arid Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin in South Asia
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GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..