Excerpt. For full article, please use this link. “Players in the financial-services industry are traveling to the world’s most cash-rich locales, scouring rural villages in an effort to tap an untouched market where some 2.4 billion people have yet to open a bank account. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s a tectonic shift [...]
GIM delivers a keynote speech at the Sixth World Water Forum: Testing solutions for water products at the BOP must take a multi-product approach, instead of a single product-driven approach In a keynote presentation at the Japan Water Forum Side Event at the Sixth World Water Forum, Marseille, 14 March 2012, Sahba Sobhani (Growing Inclusive [...]
Beyond microfinance: Can government cash transfers scale up financial access for the poorest? From Business Fights Poverty, written by Sahba Sobhani and Subathirai Sivakumaran, Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative, UNDP What next after microcredit? The last few years of news scandals in the microfinance arena has created a gap in the credibility and viability of providing effective, [...]
Washington—Major changes in the multilateral landscape have paved the way for new partnerships and a concrete, recognized role for the private sector in development, UNDP Assistant Administrator for External Relations and Advocacy Sigrid Kaag said here. “The geopolitical and multilateral landscapes have changed, creating new opportunities to partner and co-create,” Kaag told a panel discussion [...]
Haiti’s earthquake-affected households started to receive cash installments through the first ever mobile money transfer mechanism to support post-disaster housing reconstruction. Over the next three months, 1,000 low-income households will be receiving monetary subsidies totalling US$500 to purchase high-quality construction materials at certified stores. The initiative is part of the ‘Community Support Centres for House Repairs’, a [...]
The ‘African Facility for Inclusive Markets’ (AFIM) is a regional private sector and inclusive market development programme for poverty reduction in Africa. Based in Johannesburg, it is supported by UNDP’s Private Sector Division and Regional Bureau for Africa. As part of its objective to increase the capacity of regional organizations, governments, and other stakeholders to [...]
The oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2012 provides PhD students and young scholars working on poverty, sustainable development, and the informal economy from an Organisation and Management Theory perspective a platform to present and discuss their on-going research projects with fellow students and senior faculty. The 2012 academy focus, “Matching Culture and Markets for Inclusive [...]
The ‘African Facility for Inclusive Markets’ (AFIM) is a regional private sector and inclusive market development programme for poverty reduction in Africa. Based in Johannesburg, it is supported by UNDP’s Private Sector Division and Regional Bureau for Africa. As part of its objective to increase the capacity of regional organizations, governments, and other stakeholders to support [...]
The ‘African Facility for Inclusive Markets’ (AFIM) is a regional private sector and inclusive market development programme for poverty reduction in Africa. Based in Johannesburg, it is supported by UNDP’s Private Sector Division and Regional Bureau for Africa. As part of its objective to increase the capacity of regional organizations, governments, and other stakeholders to support [...]
The ‘African Facility for Inclusive Markets’ (AFIM) is a regional private sector and inclusive market development programme for poverty reduction in Africa. Based in Johannesburg, it is supported by UNDP’s Private Sector Division and Regional Bureau for Africa. As part of its objective to increase the capacity of regional organizations, governments, and other stakeholders to [...]
The Working Party on aid effectiveness hosted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has initiated work on the private sector in the context of aid effectiveness with a view to better understand the role of aid as a catalyst to support effective private sector contribution to development. Building [...]
About the authors Hidemi Yoshida is an associate professor of the Hosei Graduate School of Environmental Management and the Faculty of Humanity and Environment of Hosei University in Tokyo. Her research areas include microfinance, social entrepreneurship, and poverty alleviation through CSV (Creating Shared Value). She published the Japanese Version of the GIM Report “Creating Value [...]
About the authors Kathrin Hamm worked as Managing Director of the Afghan German Management College where she was responsible to build up the operations across Afghanistan. Under her leadership the college was distinguished by the UNESCO and formed to a profitable social enterprise, serving more than 400 Afghan students with a strong focus on women [...]
As part of The Guardian International Development Journalism Competition, an article recently submitted talks about the role private sector can play in international health development. The article features, among others, ‘SMS for Life‘, an innovative public-private partnership between Novartis, IBM, Vodafone, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and the Roll Back Malaria campaign to monitor drug [...]
Charlie Dou is an adjunct Professor and Research Associate, Alternative Energy Institute, West Texas A&M University, USA; CEO, Beijing Bergey Windpower Co. Ltd., served as International advisor for UNDP/GEF on renewable energy project in China, key Expert for EU, Consultant for the World Bank/GEF, etc. He is directly involved in many research and international projects [...]
Wafa Elgarah is an Assistant Professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane in Morocco with a PhD in Management Information Systems. She has written two GIM case studies on renewable energy in Morocco
