Finance and Investment

Finance & Investment Strategies to End Poverty

Financing impact start-ups: two solutions, two challenges

Crowd funding has been a sea change for start-ups, but more work needs to be done to make it accessible to developing world entrepreneurs. In addition, large companies and development charities could do much more to use a small part of their procurement budget to support start-up ecosystems.
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Developing Skills and Quality Jobs for Young People

In the light of this crisis, developing skills and creating quality jobs for young people becomes an urgent priority for ensuring the future stability of society, reducing poverty and providing some means of survival for millions around the world.
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Scalability, Sustainability and Participation in Value Chain

This is the second in a three part series, published in the lead up to Standard Chartered’s Futuremakers Forum online events 2020.  Join the conversation exploring innovative ideas and tangible solutions for financing young entrepreneurs.
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How Can Companies and Investors Collaborate to Embed Purpose Authentically into Business?

A discussion paper on how business can authentically embed purpose across their business, and the role investors can play. With Unilever, GSK and Visa Inc.
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Finding Innovative Ideas and Tangible Solutions for Financing Young Entrepreneurs

It is essential that young people are given the opportunity to succeed in any entrepreneurial ventures they undertake. Join the conversation to explore innovative ideas and tangible solutions for financing young entrepreneurs live on 30 July 2020.
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How Financial Inclusion can Build Economic Resilience in the Wake of COVID-19

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a massive economic toll, financial inclusion will be critical to helping the poor recover. Microfinance institutions should work in tandem with businesses to build community resilience and boost economic growth.
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Bringing Impact Investing to Life

It has never been easier to save lives. Thanks to technology, healthcare no longer has to be one-size-fits-some. Infrastructure-lite innovators, typically funded by private equity and venture capital, are contributing to better health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in novel ways. Their ability to succeed is vital, now more than ever.
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Saving Main Street in the Wake of COVID-19

As Americans are bracing for the health fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak, the nation’s Main Street businesses are fighting for their survival. Salon owners, event planners, shopkeepers and restaurants are being forced to make hard choices—pay their bills or their employees—and the workers who rely on them for their livelihoods face prolonged economic hardship.
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Why ESG is Core to Long-Term Success in Venture Capital

Venture capital (VC) is a relatively new asset class but is already having a transformative impact on large sections of the global economy.
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Fintech Opens New Opportunities for Private Sector to Support Cash Transfer Aid in Developing Countries

The Danish Red Cross, Grassroots Economics Foundation, and partners will collaborate to develop a new global platform for blockchain-based community currencies to boost cash transfer aid and help cash-poor regions grow their own economies, thanks to a grant from Innovation Norway matched by private sector. 
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Payal Dalal

Meet Payal Dalal, Vice President for Global Programs at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. The Center is the philanthropic hub of Mastercard and is focused on developing new partnership models and activating Mastercard assets.
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How Tech Investments Can Help Smallholders in India

Inequality in income and availability of work between rural and urban areas are large contributors to a country’s overall economic inequality. In India, agriculture still employs more than half of the workforce, but wages are low and with rising education levels many young people no longer aspire to take over the family smallholder farm
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Buy Leadership, Sell Poverty – How Finance Can Boost Value in Agricultural Supply Chains 

Financial access and inclusion continue to be sold to farming communities in the world’s leading supply chains at the very price of poverty. How do we reduce this toxic trade-off, why is it taking so long and how does it impact the planet’s future? Tasneem Mayet, BFP Ambassador, shares insights from conversations had at #BFPOXFORD, closing with some examples of what has worked well in the industry and yet why it is not enough.​
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5 Reflections on How International Donors Help Businesses Scale their Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

The scale and complexity of the challenges ahead of us require a new ambition for how we collaborate across traditional divides. At Business Fights Poverty NYC 2019, we brought together experts and practitioners from business and the international development community for a roundtable discussion about how we can partner more effectively to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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How Can Companies and Investors Collaborate to Embed Purpose Authentically into Business?

As part of our Challenge on Purpose supported by GSK, VISA and Unilever, Business Fights Poverty convened a meeting of around 30 representatives from companies, financial institutions, NGOs and development institutions to discuss this pertinent topic.
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Naureen Hyat

During this week’s Spotlight interview podcast, we speak with Naureen Hyat. Naureen is a serial entrepreneur ranked on the Women in FinTech Powerlist 2017.
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The Role Banks Can Play in Advancing Gender Equality

What happens when a bank makes a move towards achieving greater gender parity internally, combined with a razor sharp focus on the ambitions set out in SDG 5? Learn more in a conversation with Laura Hemrika, Global Head, Corporate Citizenship & Foundations and Patsy Doerr, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Credit Suisse.
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We Finally Have an Official Climate Emergency. But is that the full picture?

From climate change to climate crisis and now a climate emergency, the growing debate around the language used for some of our biggest global challenges is missing the most important word for addressing them: resilience.​
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To Boldly Go Where We’ve Not Been Before Doesn’t Need to be a Leap of Faith

Star Trek’s Chief of Logic (COL), Spock nailed it when he said that “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” If we are bold and if we act now to change our organisations and our systems we will help ensure that future generations do that other thing the pointy-eared one said and “Live long and prosper.” ​
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Business as Usual – Or Business with Purpose?

As we launch our new strategy, Laura Kelly, Director of IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, considers how the private sector can respond to development and environmental challenges – and how IIED can support business to deliver positive change.
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