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This database contains a diverse range of more than 2,000 publications about inclusive business and relating topics, such as impact investing, microfinance and market systems approaches. You will find not only reports but also market intelligence, case studies, tools and videos that touch upon of several sectors and regions.

The diverse range of publications in this database all relate to inclusive business - meaning business models that engage base of the pyramid (BoP) consumers, suppliers, entrepreneurs and/or employees in low income and/or emerging markets.

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Companies could unlock US$3.7 trillion a year in cities with an annual investment of US$2.5 trillion in sustainable business models by 2030. The opportunities are broken down across 16 areas, including affordable housing, energy efficiency in buildings, improved mobility systems, building resilient cities, smart metering, modular and timber buildings, water infrastructure and cultural tourism. Researchers estimate a range of value for each opportunity.

PublisherBusiness and Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC), AlphaBeta
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AuthorN/A
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryGlobal
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This report analyses the value chain of the vanilla industry and highlights the challenges and proposed solutions to increase farmer incomes. These include the recommendations at the local, national, supply chain and consumer levels.

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This report aims to help unlock business opportunities that advance the health, rights, and well-being of women in global value chains. It highlights the benefits of investing in women along the value chain and provides a framework for action and practical guidance for companies to identify and strengthen value-chain investment opportunities that deliver positive returns to business, women, and society.

PublisherBSR, Women Deliver, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
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AuthorJ. Davis Pluess, P. M. Pruzan-Jorgensen
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryGlobal
IB Topics: Gender
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The paper highlights critical pathways for developing a radical mind set that aligns sustainability with profit and transforms business and markets. It is a practical guide for those who recognise that the challenge is no longer how to build the business case for action, but how to evolve and deploy the business models needed to create new forms of financial and extra-financial value.

PublisherBusiness and Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC), Volans
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AuthorJ. Elkington, J. Lim, L. Smith
LanguageEnglish
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Index-based insurance is an innovative financial service that can help smallholder farmers manage some of the risks related to weather conditions. Considering the lessons and insights gathered from index insurance and financial education projects, as well as from the field of behavioural economics, the Global Action Network to advance agriculture insurance (GAN), coordinated by the International Labour Organisation’s Impact Insurance Facility and supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has worked to put together guidelines for index insurance education to support the industry to deal with this task.

PublisherThe ILO's Impact Insurance Facility
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AuthorC. Fonseca
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryGlobal
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This study by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) delves into the transformative potential of postal networks into well-suited providers of insurance. The report concludes by presenting three types of business models in which postal insurance can help advancing financial inclusion through insurance access.

PublisherThe ILO's Impact Insurance Facility
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AuthorG. Suedekum
LanguageEnglish
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This report offers a first set of insights, distilled from the knowledge of leading practitioners, on how to successfully integrate smallholders into value chains through effective service delivery and smallholder aggregation models. It uses case studies from five African and Asian countries.

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Insurance for small businesses represents a promising market for insurers. Nonetheless, it poses significant challenges related to product design, distribution and insurance culture and demand. This paper is dedicated to analysing these challenges, but it also looks into ways to overcoming them by looking at emerging good practices of providers.

PublisherThe ILO's Impact Insurance Facility
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AuthorA. Merry
LanguageEnglish
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This report lays down a framework that defines inclusive business, sets out recommendations to enable inclusive business, and proposes a way forward for governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders.

PublisherG20
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LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryGlobal
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With funding from FAO, the Contract Farming Support Program (CFSP) of SNV tried to improve the smallholder farmers’ access to input and output markets as well as extension support through contract growing with private companies.
 

PublisherSNV
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AuthorA. Mudhefi, B. Nhau, C. Nyagumbo, D. Maleni, D. Sango, D. Sarupinda, E. Mudyazvivi, L. Ngunguzala-Mawire, R. Mukombe, S. Gaba
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountrySub-Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe
IB Topics: BoP as supplier
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