Finance and Investment

Finance & Investment Strategies to End Poverty

Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.
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Charting a Course for Robust Private Sector Engagement

MCC share the highlights from their recent Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C. The gathering brought together Council members with deep subject area expertise, representing a variety of U.S. industries, to provide specific feedback on agency plans, as well as advice on how MCC can improve its engagement with the business community.
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The Impact of a Microfinance on Preventing Intimate Partner Violence

Indashyikirwa, meaning ‘agents for change’, is a program that seeks to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) across Rwanda, and is being implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) and Rwanda Men’s Resource Center (RWAMREC). Here Erin Stern shares some key learnings, processes and impacts from the programme.
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Making Payment Acceptance a Driver for Financial Inclusion

Mastercard believe that merchant acceptance is key to financial inclusion. Here they discuss advancing payment acceptance at the base of the pyramid and how new product solutions, business models and partnerships can advance both electronic payments and financial inclusion.
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Why Retailers are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) explains how some of the UK’s leading retailers are coming together to strengthen the industry’s response to environmental challenges. Recognising that scale is essential to drive change, the BRC and has come together under the new initiative Better Retail, Better World, to build a better, more prosperous and sustainable world.
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Engaging the Private Sector for Development Results in Indonesia

Nilmini Rubin, Vice President for International Development at Tetra Tech in Jakarta, Indonesia, shares how MCC-funded projects are engaging the private sector in cocoa production and other industries to achieve better development results.
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Are Standards an Effective Tool to Help Improve Production Practices Across Sectors?

Kristin Komives, ISEAL’s Impacts Director, explores how sustainability standards drive the take up of sustainable practices, following the publication of a new research review.
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Affordability – Beyond the Buzzword

Affordability is at the core of much of CDC’s work as impact investors – from affordable electricity to housing, food, healthcare, education and many more. Yet ask someone to define what it means, and you may be met with little more than a blank stare.
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Women Sea Salt Producers in Indonesia Cooperate to Seize New Economic Opportunities

MCC’s investments in Indonesia are helping to empower women salt producers to increase the quantity and quality of salt production to boost incomes. The women are benefiting from labor-reducing and energy-efficient technologies as well as training programs aimed at improving salt-making skills, financial management, marketing and more.
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A Nigérien Entrepreneur Finds Her Niche in Camel Milk

MCC’s $437 million five-year compact to strengthen agriculture sector entered into force in January. The compact will focus on improving access to water for agriculture and livestock and expanding access to markets. In this blog post, we profile Wouro Habsatou Aboubacar, who runs a camel farm outside of Niamey.
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The Counter-intuitive Nature of ‘recovery’ Lending

What happens when disaster strikes a community that is depending on microfinance for its credit requirements? VisionFund believe the greatest benefit is seen when aid and recovery lending working together. Aid supports people at their most vulnerable, whilst the recovery lending stimulates productive economic activity.
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Land Rights Open Economic Opportunities in Cabo Verde

The Millennium Challenge Corporation share their approach to land management and how it has helped make Cabo Verde a more welcoming place for investors and opened up new income-generating opportunities for people across the country.
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Delivering on the Promise of Inclusive Business

Inclusive business as an idea has pushed the boundaries of what is possible and it offers the potential for scale in a way that philanthropy never could. So why are there so few examples that have truly scaled? What needs to happen to deliver on the promise of inclusive business?
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How to Achieve Financial inclusion through Data-free Mobile Banking

The promise of digital technologies can give more people access to financial services, but the ability to scale services and create revenue from these services has proven more elusive. N-Frnds and BTPN Wow, Indonesia, share their experience of helping to bring comprehensive mobile financial services to the mass market.
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Why the Role of Business is So Crucial in the Fight for a Fairer Tax System

Oxfam discusses the importance of engaging with responsible businesses around Tax Avoidance and their latest hard-hitting video “The Heist the Noone’s talking about”, which highlights the real human costs of corporate tax avoidance in developing countries.
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How Financial Inclusion Can Move People Out of Poverty

Around the world this week, governments, multilaterals, and companies are coming together to celebrate Financial Inclusion Week. It’s an opportunity to reflect on the progress that we’ve made in extending financial access to un-banked and underbanked communities, and also a time to take honest stock of how far we still…
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Ploughing the Path in a Male-dominated Turf

Husnaara ran to her house smiling from ear to ear as if she could not get any happier. At that point nothing seemed impossible; she could become a doctor, an engineer or a lawyer, go to a good university.
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Power Sector Reforms Spur Private-Sector Participation

Ivy Namasani makes a dress in her tailoring shop in downtown Blantyre, Malawi. Her store suffers from frequent power blackouts that hamper her ability to do business. As part of the Malawi Compact, MCC is supporting the Government of Malawi in its efforts to strengthen the country’s power sector and…
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Expanding Women’s Financial Inclusion: A Win-win for Women and Financial Institutions

Rose, an astute and driven business woman runs a “table banking” operation in the heart of Nairobi. An extension of the traditional village savings and loan associations, “table banking” has gained popularity among poor women in Kenya. Women get together every month and contribute a certain amount of money. Members…
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Want to Change the World? Allow the Private Sector to Do What it Does Best

For the past week, the world has watched as heads of state and global business leaders convened in New York City for the 72nd United Nations General Assembly. The agenda was far from light. Topics ranged from food security to climate change to the refugee crisis to healthcare. The task…
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