Economic Development

Economic Development Strategies to Combat Global Poverty

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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Making Supply Chains Work for Women

BSR has launched a new video that sets out why and how companies should work to drive gender equality in global supply chains, with a focus on how companies can act, enable and influence change.
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Partnerships – All Talk and No Action?

​Does the cost and complexity of partnerships mean that most organisations should focus more, and collaborate less?
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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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Dr Donal Brown CBE

Donal Brown is arguably a good man to have in a crisis. Having been awarded his CBE for leading the UK taskforce during the devastating Ebola outbreak in 2014,  he is now turning his attention to climate resilience for small holder farmers in some of our poorest regions.
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It’s Time to Move: 5 Ways We Can Upgrade Our SDG Navigation Systems

The state of the online infrastructure that underpins the sustainable development agenda today is lacking. Despite the momentum that’s been built, the standards, tools and systems required to facilitate individual and collective action are often missing. TPI and C-Change share a plan to collectively bring SDG infrastructure and online systems into the 21st century.
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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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Personal Actions that Everyone Can Take to Support the SDGs

New ‘Good Life Goals’ embrace individual action in a fun, easily-understood, and accessible way and offer organisations a charming way of engaging staff, partners and customers in the 17 SDGs.
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5 Ways to Make Your Organisation a Great Sustainability Partner

Delivering the SDGs will require partnerships across business, governments, donors, the UN and NGOs at a scale that dwarfs current efforts of collaboration. TPI and C-Change explore how to design and build the new infrastructure that can systematically engage business and deliver the unprecedented level of collaboration required to achieve the SDGs.
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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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VIDEOS: Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018

Watch the videos of Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018. The event brought together 200 professionals from business and the development community during UN General Assembly Week to explore the theme of rethinking collaboration for the Sustainable Development Goals. The event was supported by Barclays and GSK.
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NEW REPORTS: Intrapreneurship, Partnerships, Refugees and Education

Business Fights Poverty has just released a series of reports that mark the culmination of co-creation processes with a range of partners and network members. Topics include Social Intrapreneurship, Transformational Partnerships, Supporting Refugees and Education for Sustainable Development. Download them for free.
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Maike von Heymann

Maike von Heymann, Anglo American’s Socio-Economic Development and Partnership Manager, shares her insights on the progress of community engagement and the importance of partnerships – as Anglo American increasingly looks to long term economic development for the regions in which they operate.
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The Role of Business in Education for Sustainable Development

Our new report demonstrates how business can help people gain the skills and knowledge to advance sustainable development, navigate the future of work and create a more prosperous society. The project was led by Business Fights Poverty, Pearson, Arizona State University and PRME, an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact.
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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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Building Transformational Partnerships the Case of Cargill and CARE

Cargill and CARE’s 50-year partnership offers insights and lessons for anyone looking to build an effective and long-term partnership. In this Briefing Paper, we set out success factors across five pillars that others wishing to create or sustain their corporate-NGO partnerships can adapt.
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The Intrapreneurship Ecosystem: Creating the Conditions for Social Intrapreneurs to Thrive

We are delighted to share a new guide that provides a framework for understanding the Intrapreneurship Ecosystem. Our intention with the guide is to contribute to the growing body of knowledge about incubating, scaling and replicating successful inclusive business models and social innovation.
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17 Business Models to Build Refugee Resilience

Our new report,“Resilience through Refugee-Inclusive Business”, aims to help mobilise more business to support this commitment. This includes a taxonomy of 17 practical business models and a series of in-depth briefs on what it will take to mobilise more business and scale solutions that help refugees thrive, not just survive.
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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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