Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

Together for 2022 Workshop – Partnerships

Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Our workshop explored “How do we transfer the learning of rapid collaboration for transformational change, learnt during the pandemic, to the challenges ahead?” Participants
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Together for 2022 Workshop – Livelihoods

Our workshop explored “How do we increase the resilience to shocks of the livelihoods of those most vulnerable during 2022?”. Participants discussed the importance
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Together for 2022 – Workshop

Our workshop explored “How do we increase the resilience to shocks of the livelihoods of those most vulnerable during 2022?”. Participants discussed the importance
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Karen Simmonds

Founder of Travel Matters and the ‘Make Travel Matter’ campaign – Karen Simmonds has been within the travel industry her entire career and joins us for this podcast to share how there could be benefits to the traveller, business, economies, the environment and to local communities if we consider travelling a bit differently.
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What If we created our own celebration days?

François Taddei, from his upcoming book Game-Changing: Together Solving the Problems of the 21st Century, writes about the importance of celebration to foster collaboration and co-creation among engaged actors, including the business community, to transform education for the future of the planet.
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Are you a social innovator working to increase access to healthcare? Apply now!

Applications are open for the Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award 2022. This competition awards impact-driven, market-based organizations that contribute to building resilient societies. This year, the award targets enterprises that increase financial access to healthcare in low-income communities.
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Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford

This conversation goes deep into examining poverty. Sabina explains how measuring multidimensional poverty can incorporate different dimensions, or aspects of poverty, to create measures tailored to each context. With colleagues at the University of Oxford this has been applied and implemented empirically to produce a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
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How businesses and young people can collaborate to be a force for development

Clean water and sanitation for all is a critical Sustainable Development Goal which has only become more significant in the global pandemic. In rural Tanzania the spread of water-borne diseases affects everyday lives, so Raleigh International young people teamed up with Reckitt employees, and found an impactful way to combat this problem.
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Seeking entrepreneurs and SMEs that are innovating in the care economy

Business Fights Poverty is excited to be part of a new programme to transform the care economy and is seeking SMEs and entrepreneurs across our network to be matched with investors. Sign up by 10th December. Read on for more information!
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Powering the just transition – The biggest opportunity for inclusive business

Markus Dietrich, celebrates his 10th anniversary in the inclusive business community and reflects on the journey of the once ‘new paradigm for doing business’. How far did we get since then? Did IB end up on the dust heap of history as another management concept that was overtaken by another school of thought? Looking at the management literature one could almost think so, as now the net-positive company is being proclaimed as the new kid on the block. But IB has proven very resilient; there is even a fair share of IB in the net-positive company.
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A Great Reset On Disability

Poor treatement and downright discrimination against disabled people in the workplace are things we don’t ever want to go back to. David Grayson argues that businesses and society need a “reset” on disability, and hopes to see the sustainability-related business led networks becoming much more proactive in making the links between disability and the achievement of the SDGs.
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The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation

The GSMA, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) have announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation. The objective of this new Fund is to help accelerate the testing, adoption and scalability of digital innovations that enable the world’s most vulnerable populations to adapt to, anticipate and absorb the negative impacts of climate change.
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How COVID-19 has accelerated financial inclusion and reinforced the need for digitalisation

Two billion people across the globe lack access to formal financial services and approximately 90% of these live in developing countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated growth but also increased the danger that those at the very margins of society, could get left behind. A new study examines crucial lessons learned over the past 12 months from organisations striving to continue to support vulnerable people access finical services throughout the pandemic, to prevent vital progress from being undone. 
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Refocus, retool, reset: insights from a COVID-19 rapid response & recovery programme

YBI today launches a new report ‘Refocus, Retool, Reset: Insights from Youth Business International’s COVID-19 Rapid Response & Recovery Programme’, sharing our learnings and insights from YBI’s Rapid Response and Recovery Programme, supported by Google.org and delivered by a total of 34 YBI network members and delivery partners across the EMEA, APAC and MENA regions.
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We can’t win the race to zero without financing a just rural transition

Recent commitments by financial institutions to align with net zero raise the question: where is all that money going to go? The food and land use sector offers unique investment opportunities that can reduce carbon emissions in a cost effective manner, while also addressing biodiversity loss and inequality. This must be done in a people-centered way, contributing to a just rural transition.
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Regenerative agriculture creates climate resilience with Oliver Furechi, Evalyn Akoth and Sarah Roberts

Regenerative agriculture creates climate resilience. Learn from Kenyan farmer Evalyn Akoth and Practical Action.
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Carol Weis and Neha Misra

By one estimate the demand for photovoltaic installers (or solar energy electricians) is projected to grow 52 percent from 2020 to 2030. Carol Weis and Neha Misra – both part of Remote Energy examine how we train up a new global workforce of solar installers
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What do we mean by "Economic Development"?

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