Finance and Investment

Finance & Investment Strategies to End Poverty

Giving Women Better Access to Finance Could Unlock $330 Billion in Annual Global Revenue

Giving women better access to finance could unlock $330 billion in annual global revenue. Yet 80% of women-owned businesses are not getting the credit they need.  In response, CARE International has launched a campaign calling on the financial sector to develop products and services that are specifically designed to meet the needs of marginalised women.
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Helping Women Thrive: Give a Loan, Create a Community Role Model

Worldwide, women have much less economic opportunity, security, and freedom, but microloans help women obtain capital they otherwise would not have access to. This support allows women to start their own businesses, go to school and invest in the health of their communities and families, creating a ripple effect in which entire societies thrive and women are regarded as role models and leaders.​
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Celebrating IWD 2019: M&S Joins Better Than Cash Alliance

M&S has made a bold commitment to helping its supply chain convert from cash to digital wage payments, but they recognise they can’t do this alone. In this article, M&S celebrates what can be achieved through collaboration with partnerships, other businesses and NGOs.
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Cash Transfers and Gender Equality

This year’s Commission on the Status of Women focused on social protection, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure. IDS researchers attending the event at the United Nations in New York sought to highlight the evidence on what works in each of these areas in terms of achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls.
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Mind the Gap & Fix the Mix: Gender Equality in Private Equity

In March this year, the IFC launched a new report, “Moving Toward Gender Balance in Private Equity and Venture Capital”, which explores the link between financial returns and gender diversity; the lack of women in the industry; and steps needed to achieve gender balance.​
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Businesses for impact in the spotlight: 4 insights into transforming access to financial services in Nepal ​ ​

​How can technology be used to create inclusive financial infrastructure for women in remote communities? The Palladium-run SPRING Accelerator supports entrepreneurs who can bring products and services to adolescent girls. Read an interview with Accelerator participant, Amit Agrawal, CEO of Janaki Technology Pvt. Ltd., about his journey towards increasing financial inclusion for women in Nepal.
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Business Integrity Initiative: Changing the Way We Do Business in Africa?

The Ethics 1st program of the US Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Business Integrity Initiative of the UK Government seek to put businesses from the US and the UK in touch with companies in Africa (and elsewhere) that are certified as anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliant. 230,000+ UK SMEs need clean business partners and intermediaries. Is this a business opportunity for your country?
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Can Microfinance Solve the Finance Woes of Facebook Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh?

BRAC microfinance is working with ShopUp – one of Bangladesh’s biggest e-commerce platforms – to deliver innovative financial services. This partnership is piloting a loan product, which utilises an AI credit rating system, for small-scale Facebook-based entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. It is BRAC’s first ever product for the e-commerce sector, and the first of its kind in the microfinance sector in Bangladesh
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Factories Paying Workers Digitally are Five Times More Likely to Provide Good Social and Labor Practices

Across the globe, factories that pay workers digitally are five times more likely to follow exemplary social and labor practices than those that pay with cash or checks. The data comes from the Higg Index from nearly 3,000 factories across 58 countries, representing 85 brands and retailer supply chains.
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Food System Failures in Our Age of Abundance

Food systems fail hundreds of millions of underserved consumers and business entrepreneurs around the world. There is a huge opportunity before us to harness talent, innovation and technology to build inclusive food systems for the future.
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How to Mobilise Finance for Corporate Social Impact? Involve your CFO!

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and JPMorgan Chase & Co., have brought together the CFOs and senior finance and investor relations professionals to understand how they mobilize, support and scale finance for social impact in their organisations.
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Strategic Leadership Education for Inclusive Finance: A Discussion with Professors from the Harvard Business School

The HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is a Harvard Business School Executive Education program developed with Center for Financial Inclusion. The program is led by faculty co-chairs Kash Rangan and Michael Chu.
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Towards Solving the SDG’s Funding Gap: UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative

The UN Environment Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI) Global Roundtable took place in Paris recently, an event dedicated to mobilising the financial sector to deliver a sustainable financial system. UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative, “Rethinking Impact to finance the SDGs”, was launched, and explores avenues to closing the SDGs funding gap. ​
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Careen Abb

This week Business Fights Poverty’s Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership interviews Careen Abb, leader of the UN’s Positive Impact Initiative.
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Finance for All: Wedded to Fintech for Better or for Worse

A new report finds that technology is delivering considerable benefits to the financial inclusion market – but is also creating new risks. Are fintech and financial inclusion perfect partners? Will this marriage last?
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The 6 Market Gaps the Finance Sector Must Address to Help Meet the SDGs

The need for more collective action to address the world’s most urgent challenges couldn’t be clearer. TPI and C-Change argue no sector has a more important role to play than finance in determining whether or not we are successful in addressing these challenges.
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Toilets, Not Poverty Traps

Who will step up to address the very real liquidity gap that stands between poor households and their first toilet in Cambodia? iDE believes that local, friendly latrine businesses are best placed to provide non-interest bearing payment facilitation to households in their community. Read how iDE is seeking to unlock this sanitation supply-led financing at a larger scale.
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For Women in India Small Loans Have a Big Impact

Microloans help millions of families start and expand businesses, purchase essentials, and support their children’s education. Over the past decade, IFC has helped create a market for microfinance in India by investing $564 million in equity and debt.
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Andrew Howard

If you are looking for the 101 on ESG investing and the latest trends in sustainable finance – look no further than this podcast. Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Andrew Howard, Head of Sustainable Research within the Sustainable Investment team at Schroders, the asset management company.
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High ESG Standards in Logistics for Economic Development

High ESG standards in logistics can make the difference when it comes to economic development in northern India.
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