Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

As Countries Turn Inward, Companies Stand Up for Humanity. Let’s Applaud and Encourage Them.

“Aid organisations are improving lives with fourth industrial revolution technologies and the indispensable partnership of the corporate world. These efforts are good PR but they are also good business. Even more importantly, they help build a better, more cooperative world” – says Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps
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The Future of Work: How Business Can Support an Inclusive Transition

A live written discussion exploring how businesses can help not just their own internal talent and skills development during the fourth work revolution but
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On Purpose

Larry Fink’s annual open letter to corporate CEOs is fast-becoming a fixture at the start of the year. Fink’s views matter. They carry weight. He is, after all, the co-founder and now Chairman and CEO of BlackRock – the biggest money-management firm in the world with more than $6 trillion in assets under management​
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BCtA at 10: Inclusivity for All in an Ambitious New Call to Action

On the milestone of its 10th anniversary, Business Call to Action reflects on how the inclusive business landscape has changed over the past decade, and looks forward to what lies ahead
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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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How Can We Produce Enough Protein to Feed 10 Billion People?

The world has a long path to travel to provide its growing population with the quantity and quality of protein needed, at affordable prices and in a manner that is both sustainable and optimal for health. A year of research and dialogue among stakeholders of the World Economic Forum has begun to suggest a four-part roadmap for making this future of protein a possibility.
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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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The ‘Purpose Paradigm’: Solution or Scam?

There is a clear and deepening frustration amongst some with the rhetoric of “purpose”. For those of us who believe in the power of business to do good, this is an opportunity for some honest self-reflection. But ultimately purpose is still worth believing in for three good reasons.
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Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019: Embedding Purpose into Business

We’re back at Saïd Business School on 11th July for our annual flagship event, Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019, with the theme of embedding purpose authentically into business. Apply for a place, nominate yourself or a colleague to be one of our featured speakers, or become a Business Fights Poverty Ambassador. #BFPOXF19
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Amanda Gardiner

Amanda Gardiner, Vice President of Global Sustainability & Social Innovation at the world’s largest education company Pearson joins us for this week’s Spotlight interview.
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‘Total Stakeholder Value’: Is This a New Purpose that Can Drive Necessary, Systemic Change?

Business and societal failures have arisen from flawed economic and financial theories, and a skewed, systemic, perspective of purpose and value. A new book argues that we can create a socio-economic system in which all organisations are encouraged and incentivised to generate lasting value for all human stakeholders​
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Top Stories of 2018

With the New Year imminent, we thought we’d take a look at the most popular articles of the year. So here, based on the number of unique visits each article received and in reverse order, are the ten most popular stories published in 2018.
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How can we build the skills and knowledge that are vital to achieving sustainable development?

Education is at the heart of human progress and central to the Sustainable Development Goals. In our latest report, we explore how business can contribute more to education and training for sustainable development. Ultimately, the skills of the future are skills for sustainable development.
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Most Millennials Will Only Work For Purpose-Driven Firms

Today’s talent is attracted to companies whose values match their own. The most attractive companies to today’s talent are driven by purpose, according to London Business School (LBS) experts.
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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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Beyond Certification: The Systemic Impacts of Sustainability Standards

Voluntary sustainability standards have the potential to deliver impacts that go beyond individual certified operations and effect wider systemic changes, according to new research published by WWF and ISEAL. These ‘systemic impacts’ help to create an enabling environment for production and consumption practices that benefit people and the planet, and contribute toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
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International Retail Therapy Creates New Jobs

A conversation with Martha Estrada, owner of SuperCo of Guatemala City, and a Bpeace Fast Runner, and Nat Love, a U.S. retail expert and a Bpeace Skillanthropist.
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Are you a Small Business Working in Frontier Markets? An Opportunity to Showcase your Approach and Influence How You Get Support

We invite you to share your experiences of barriers and drivers of doing business in frontier markets and to help shape how small and medium-sized enterprises are better supported by the UK Government and other organisations in doing their international business.
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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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