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This report highlights the size of the revenue opportunity for banks which financial inclusion represents, and reviews where banks are at in capturing this opportunity. It documents six key insights on how banks can address this market, and recommendations for how governments, donors and NGOs can enable financial inclusion.

This report estimates that the global financial inclusion opportunity for banks is worth $380 billion, and it identifies six key insights for addressing this market responsibly and profitably.

This landscape study examines the impact investing industry across East Africa with particular detail on five countries—Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. It captures activity that may be relevant for impact investors, such as investments at the base of the economic pyramid that may lack an explicit intention for positive impact, and it highlights the role of key industry actors such as government bodies, investment advisors, incubators, and accelerators.

This report synthesizes learnings from a project between CGAP and two human-centered design firms to design a new generation of smallholder-specific digital financial products and services across four countries- Zimbabwe, Senegal, Rwanda and Cambodia. It outlines a set of recommendations for financial service providers to consider when developing new offerings for smallholders.

This report examines where to best deploy capital and structure partnerships that offer maximum value, and how to achieve the SDGs in the most cost-efficient way possible. It outlines market-building methods that support for social enterprises serving low-income consumers, as well as the comparative advantages, objectives and incentives of different stakeholders and how these can be harnessed to forge stronger ecosystems that rapidly accelerate market growth.

This report documents Grow Africa's activities to accelerate private-sector investment into agriculture through the Grow Africa Partnership since its establishment in 2011 and outlines priorities for 2015 and beyond.

In this paper GSEN has collaborated with its global network of intermediary organisations to investigate availbale support for early-stage social entrepreneurs. The paper dives into what kind of impact is created by intermediary organisations, where support is most needed for social entrepreneurs, how GSEN members are meeting those needs, and how to do more with the resources available.

This landscape study examines the impact investing industry in six countries across South Asia—Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It captures activity that may be relevant for impact investors, such as investments at the base of the economic pyramid that may lack an explicit intention for positive impact, and it highlights the role of key industry actors such as government bodies, investment advisors, incubators, and accelerators.

This report deals with tracking the number of poor people who benefit from the impact investments that are made in businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through the DFID Impact Fund. It discusses assumptions and definitions that are needed to track benefits to low-income people resulting from impact investment and briefly outlines the approach of the DFID Impact Programme in relation to used definitions and assumptions.

This handbook introduces the methodology of equity investment based on feedback from investors and entrepreneurs, and suggests a roadmap for the launch of an investment vehicle targeting African small and growing businesses (SGBs). It is intended for African entrepreneurs, and for those either wishing to invest in African SGBs or more broadly interested in the sector of SGB investment in the developing world.