Reducing Risk is Key to Strengthening Access to Finance for SMEs

Manager, Anglo American Over 25 years, Anglo American has invested in enterprise development in host countries to support the development of both the business and local communities. A key priority is to ensure that the economic impact of our enterprise development activities extends beyond the mining sector and encourages more broad-based economic growth in countries […]

Standard Chartered's Social and Economic Impact in Indonesia

One of the priorities for all of us interested in harnessing the power of business for development impact is to demonstrate and communicate much more precisely just what that impact is. Stories and anecdotes just won’t do, when we need to demonstrate the case to sceptics in the development community, and within businesses themselves. In […]

Standard Chartered’s Social and Economic Impact in Indonesia

One of the priorities for all of us interested in harnessing the power of business for development impact is to demonstrate and communicate much more precisely just what that impact is. Stories and anecdotes just won’t do, when we need to demonstrate the case to sceptics in the development community, and within businesses themselves. In […]

CGAP concerned about efforts to remove Nobel Prize winner Yunus from Grameen Bank

PRESS RELEASE: CGAP yesterday released the following statement from Tilman Ehrbeck, CGAP CEO, and Vijay Mahajan, Chair of CGAP’s board, on the efforts to remove Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank. View and contribute to the Business Fights Poverty discussion on Muhammad Yunus and his contribution: “We are deeply concerned […]