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Posted By Marine Hasson, Aspen Institute,
Thursday, January 16, 2020
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 Closing the Gaps: Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles
By Collaborative For Frontier Finance
SGBs have a diverse range of business models and a diverse range of unmet financing needs. This report identifies five alternative approaches for providing finance that meets the diverse needs of each SGB segment and investor. It also highlights critical actions that ecosystem stakeholders can take to help support these approaches as well as newly emerging ones that together can help fill the financing gaps within each SGB segment.
Read the executive summary here.
Read the full report here.
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Posted By Kara Gordon, Aspen Institute,
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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 Impact Investment Landscape for Women's Health Spotlight on Colombia & Peru
By Linked Foundation and William Davidson Institute (WDI)
Investing in women’s health is a critical component of women’s economic and social development. However, while country economies and health systems have advanced, under-served women in Latin America have not necessarily obtained access to critical healthcare services and products. This report provides a landscape for impact investment women’s health focused in Colombia and Peru in order to catalyze impact investment interest and capital to the most-needed areas of women’s health in Latin America. More specifically, it identifies gaps in service provision, areas of opportunity for investment, pipeline opportunities, and examples of impact-forward, sustainability-oriented women’s health programs.
Read the full report here.
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Posted By Natalie Alm, Aspen Institute,
Thursday, January 2, 2020
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Fueling Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
By ANDE
This report analyzes how twenty different donors and development finance institutions (DFIs) engage with the entrepreneurship and small & growing business (SGB) sector in emerging markets. The goal of this study is to provide an overview of the main channels through which these institutions provide funding to entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses in emerging markets, reveal key statistics around this funding (such as investment size and horizon), highlight trends to look out for over the course of the next few years, and discuss implications for how ANDE should engage with each institution moving forward.
Read the executive summary here.
Read the full report here (ANDE members only).
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Posted By Lauren Weiner, Aspen Institute,
Monday, November 25, 2019
Updated: Monday, November 25, 2019
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 Formalizing SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Investisseurs & Partenaires
This report defines characteristics of "informality" in the context of labor and jobs and differentiates between how companies and employees are affected by informality. Entrepreneurs and employees fear that benefits of formalization will not outweigh the costs spent to achieve it. The report concludes that in the long term, improvements to fundamentals in the African business landscape, such as economic growth and improved training, will produce gradual but significant positive effects.
Read the full report here.
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Posted By Lauren Weiner, Aspen Institute,
Monday, November 18, 2019
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 IFC & Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women: Investing in Women’s Business Growth
By IFC and Goldman Sachs
In 2014, IFC Banking on Women and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women founded the Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility (WEOF) which was created to support women SMEs and entrepreneurs in developing countries. Please read this progress report to learn more about WEOF, their achievements to date, and what WEOF has planned for the future.
Read the full report here.
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Posted By Lauren Weiner, Aspen Institute,
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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 Green and Inclusive Business Toolbox: Promoting Green and Inclusive Business Models in Development Cooperation Programmes
By GIZ
This toolbox defines green and inclusive business (GIB) models and describes the major challenges and opportunities GIBs face. It contains various examples of best practices regarding approaches from GIZ projects that work in the field of promoting green and inclusive businesses. This toolbox was recently updated and new tools have been added in these categories: finance (p.92 and 97), capacity development (p. 54) and policy (p.110).
Read the full document here.
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Posted By Lauren Weiner, Aspen Institute,
Friday, November 1, 2019
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 USAID Invest Close-Up: Catalyzing Private Investment for Women's Economic Empowerment
By ANDE
When women are economically empowered, they invest in their businesses, families, and communities, producing a multiplier effect that spurs economic growth. Unfortunately, pervasive gender gaps and lack of access to financial services often block women from the tools and resources that they need for their families and businesses to thrive. This close-up provides background on USAID and Women's World Banking's partnership and the creation of WWBCP II. It explores the potential of using blended finance, digital financial inclusion, and the process and implications of an international development institution engaging the private sector in a new way.
Read the full report here.
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ender inclusion
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Posted By Lauren Weiner, Aspen Institute,
Friday, November 1, 2019
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 Inclusão Financeira na América Latina
By ANDE
O capítulo andino e o capítulo brasileiro criaram um relatório em conjunto que fornece uma visão geral do setor de inclusão financeira na América Latina, com foco no México e no Brasil. O relatório inclui um infográfico do cenário da inclusão financeira nos dois países, usando fatos e números apresentados ao longo de nossas reuniões e mesas-redondas do Learning Lab de Métricas.
Além disso, o relatório apresenta 3 tópicos relevantes sobre inclusão financeira: produtos e serviços financeiros centrados no usuário, infraestrutura necessária para acesso aos serviços financeiros e educação financeira. Cada tópico oferece uma introdução por especialistas e estudos de caso de diversos projetos na América Latina.
Leia o relatório completo aqui.
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Brazil
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Inclusão Financeira
Latin America
Mexico
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Posted By Lauren Weiner, Aspen Institute,
Friday, November 1, 2019
Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
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 Unlocking the Potential of Frontier Finance
By Rachel Bass
Impact investors are motivated by the potential that emerging and frontier markets posses to create strong growth and a thriving consumer class. This report assesses the frontier finance investment landscape, presents five in-depth case studies featuring different frontier investment vehicles and transactions, and provides recommendations to build the market and overcome common challenges hindering the flow of additional capital into frontier markets.
Read the full report here.
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Posted By Lauren Weiner, Aspen Institute,
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
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 South African Early Childhood Review 2019
By Ilifa Labantwana
This publication analyses and comments on over 50 current data indicators spread across five categories: nutrition, health, support for caregivers, social services and early stimulation. The authors draw links between service provision across the five categories as several government departments are responsible but don't always work in tandem for the holistic development of a child. Suggestions are made in the publications on how service delivery can be better integrated across departments using the public health system as a base, due to its frequent contact with the primary caregiver-child pair during the first 1000 days of life.
Read the full report here.
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