With a mandate to promote inclusive business, the IDFC Foundation has recently invested just over $100,000 in Mumbai-based Ziqita Healthcare and approximately...

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In 2000, NGO Gramalaya launched a sanitation and health education campaign in slums in Trichy, a South Indian city. The initiative led...

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An Israeli designer has created a green toilet for Indian slums. The toilets are designed to use minimal water, hold waste for...

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Amit Bhatia and his organization, Aspire, which trains rural and disadvantaged Indian high school and college students in English, technology, and problem-solving...

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As part of their efforts to expand further into rural markets in India, large FMCG companies “including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Britannia are...

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In an article in the Hindu Business Line, Shashanka Bhide from the National Council of Applied Economic Research in India, discusses how...

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A recent Wall Street Journal article discusses the negative implications of completely ruling out the microfinance model as an important channel for...

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Indian MFI CASHPOR Microcredit recently received $7 million in funding from Grameen Foundation and Grameen Capital India, which was made available through...

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A research paper by Doctoral researcher Priyanka Jayashankar and an Associate Professor Robert Goedegeburrre focuses on the potential for inclusive value chains...

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