Insights

Moving Towards Gender Equality: A New Index Looks at Legal Reforms to Help Women’s Economic Inclusion

Do you think the world is becoming more equal for women at work? The recently published Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform gives us some insight. While achieving gender equality requires a broad range of efforts over time, the study focuses on the law as an important first step to providing an objective measure of how specific regulations affect women’s incentives to participate in economic activity.
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Businesses and Social Change: We’re At The Starting Point, Not The Finish Line

More than three-quarters of people worldwide want CEOs “to take the lead on change” instead of waiting for the government to act, according to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer. Is this a good idea for society? What would this kind of leadership look like, and how could it be achieved? The past can provide answers.
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Why Purpose Must be at the Heart of Business Strategy

Purpose matters. But if it’s to deliver on its promises, purpose must be authentic, strategic and lived throughout the organisation. How can businesses avoid paying lip service to purpose, and instead harness its power to drive transformational change?​
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Business Integrity Initiative: Changing the Way We Do Business in Africa?

The Ethics 1st program of the US Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Business Integrity Initiative of the UK Government seek to put businesses from the US and the UK in touch with companies in Africa (and elsewhere) that are certified as anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliant. 230,000+ UK SMEs need clean business partners and intermediaries. Is this a business opportunity for your country?
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How Can an Ecosystem Approach Help MSMEs to Thrive?

The need to adopt a more collaborative, SME ecosystem strengthening approach is increasingly understood, but there remains little in the way of practical guidance to help large companies to make this shift. A new Challenge brings together a group of companies and foundations with an interest in supporting MSMEs to learn from their experience and to help fill this gap.
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Get Involved: New Challenges on Gender-Based Violence, SME Ecosystems, Transformational Partnerships and Purpose

Business Fights Poverty’s Challenge approach brings together people from across our community and beyond who are passionate about tackling specific societal issues. We’re launching four new Challenges focused on Gender-Based Violence, SME Ecosystems, Transformational Partnerships and Purpose. Learn more and get involved!
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Welcome to the Business Fights Poverty Magazine Issue One

The ways in which business can and should be addressing social issues are many and complex. This magazine helps you to navigate the challenges and find out about some of the leading edge thinking and topics across the space.​
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Large Companies Have a Key Role in Strengthening Small Supplier Integrity

This year, I’ve been proud to participate as an adviser in a project commissioned by the U.K. Government’s Business Integrity Hub, which has been established to provide practical support for companies to help prevent bribery and corruption when doing business overseas.
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How Can Business Partner to Drive Responsible Sourcing?

Join us as we explore how businesses are forging partnerships with others to make the sourcing of food and agriculture sustainable, inclusive and a force for good. This live written discussion will take place on Thursday 25 April 15:00 BST / 10:00 EDT
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How is Business Rethinking Generation Purpose?

How can business respond to the expectations of millennials, as they pioneer new styles of leadership, push for greater equality and diversity in the workplace, and have an increasingly holistic view on business performance?​
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What Can Large Businesses do to Strengthen SME Ecosystems in Frontier Markets?

Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how businesses can strengthen SME ecosystems in frontier markets. This discussion will take place on Thursday 16 May 15:00 / 10:00 EST
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From Transactional to Transformational Social Impact Partnerships, How Can We Partner More Effectively? 

If we are to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, and defend progress already made, we must, all—business, civil society and government—partner more effectively and more deeply than ever – but how? This live written discussion will take place on Thursday 21 February, 15.00 GMT/ 10.00 EST.
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2019: Why Business Should Still Care About the Sustainable Development Goals

James Gomme, Director, SDGs at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) shares six themes for what promises to be a critical year for reflecting on progress and scaling ambition.
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The Future of Work – A Social Challenge

The conversation surrounding the future of work has been dominated to date by tech teams and HR folk. Is it time for other parts of business to sit up and get involved?
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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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Are B Corps an Elite Charade for Changing the World?

Responding to Anand Giridharadas, who recently called elites to account for giving so much lip service to “changing the world,” while mostly upholding an unacceptable status quo, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of B Lab, Jay Coen Gilbert welcomes criticism of B Corps.
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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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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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Businesses Gain by Taking Steps in the Workplace to Tackle Domestic Violence

The impact of domestic violence extends beyond the homes of those affected. IFC’s Rana Karadsheh-Haddad, Regional Industry Director, Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services, Asia and Pacific, explores the toll of domestic violence in the Pacific and how some pioneering companies took measures to address domestic violence in the workplace, benefitting both their employees and their business.
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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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