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February 18, 2023
How the Dollar-A-Day Poverty Line Changed International Development
Over three decades ago, economic researcher Martin Ravallion and his colleagues found a way to identify and quantify the world’s poorest people with an international poverty line that continues to guide policies to this day
February 18, 2023
Five Lessons from Ten Corporate-Charity Partnerships
At CARE Laurie Lee worked with ten of the UK’s largest FTSE100 companies, here he reflects on all of those experiences and distils the key lessons for companies to have a positive impact on poverty and the environment
February 18, 2023
How Storytelling Can Paint a Full Picture of Impact for Businesses
Across the globe, inclusive businesses are making differences in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable – from empowering rural women to improving access to education. However, plain numbers struggle to capture the breadth of important work they are doing to investors
February 18, 2023
Just Useful… Or Truly Catalytic? How Entrepreneurs Really View Catalytic Capital – And What Impact Investors Can Do About It
In recent years, much of the attention in the impact finance sector has gone to the stewards of capital – investors, foundations and other funders – with stakeholders across the industry wondering what drives them most and which approaches work best
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….
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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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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..