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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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Scale: Thinking big
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Achieving scale is a significant success factor for microinsurance schemes, as low premiums with high costs require substantial volumes to make an initiative sustainable; however to achieve scale is difficult.

In an effort to identify lessons that support practitioners, the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility commissioned the Centre for Financial Inclusion and Regulation (Cenfri) to review microinsurance initiatives that have achieved scale  to identify and understand their trends and drivers in scale. Microinsurance Paper #30 analysed 95 Initiatives that achieved scale and evaluated 8 case studies in detail to understand what drives scale.

PublisherThe ILO's Impact Insurance Facility
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AuthorA. Dalal, C. Fonseca
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryGlobal
IB Topics: BoP as customer, Scale
SectorFinancial Services
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Scale: Thinking big
Beyond the pioneer: Getting inclusive industries to scale
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This report provides an in-depth study on the issue of market based solutions, reviewing when they do and don't achieve scale; why more market-based models are not achieving scale; and what barriers to scale that are faced. It describes market-based solutions that have achieved scale and how this has been achieved, and It discusses the journey to scale for entrepreneurial enterprises and larger companies serving poor consumers with beneficial products, and for those engaging poor producers.

PublisherMonitor Group
Publish Date
AuthorA. Karamchandani, H. Koh, N. Hegde
LanguageEnglish
Region/CountryGlobal
IB Topics: Results Measurement and Impact, Scale
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