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February 18, 2023
Lessons in Resilience: What an Impact Investor Learned from an Entrepreneur Who Refused to Give Up
Entrepreneurship is a long game, and identifying the right product, service, model or market is just the beginning of the process. Even if you have a great product and a promising market, success is never guaranteed
February 18, 2023
How Foreign Aid Can Innovate Itself Out of Existence: Exploring the Potential of Market-Creating Innovation for Sustainable Development
Waste, inefficiency, short-term thinking and a lack of focus were some of the problems identified in a New York Times article about the future of foreign aid. That may seem unremarkable – it’s a common enough critique
February 18, 2023
Designing an Impact Measurement Strategy: What’s Your North Star?
As impact investing evolves, it is exciting to witness the growing demand for impact measurement by investors and the ecosystem at large. But while the momentum and seriousness behind measuring impact is laudable, as a practitioner at a fund
February 18, 2023
Impact Measurement and Management Across Stakeholders
There are many good resources and frameworks to identify target areas of impact (United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals), classification of the impact strategy (Impact classes per the IMP framework)
January 2, 2023
Demand For Impact Investing Is Rising. Here’s Why
When leaders think of investing, their minds often jump to publicly traded stocks or bonds. But that’s starting to change with the rapid growth of private markets….
January 2, 2023
From $1.90 to $2.15 a day: the updated International Poverty Line
The World Bank has updated the methods it uses to measure incomes and poverty around the world. What does this mean for our understanding of global poverty?….
January 2, 2023
Slow-Motion Extinction? Or Can Impact Investors Reinvigorate Pro-Poor Financial Inclusion?
For years, the high impact outreach of the “pro-poor” financial inclusion sector was the darling of impact investors, attracting by far the largest share of funding….
September 21, 2022
Greater investment imperative as climate disasters become more frequent
Private sector investment to adapt to and mitigate against climate change.
September 21, 2022
Designing an Impact Measurement Strategy: What’s Your North Star?
Explore how investors can develop a robust measurement strategy.
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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..