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With the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India’s recent directives to banks to ensure coverage to all of India’s...

A South Indian entrepreneur, Arunachalam Muruganatham, has created the world’s first low-cost machine to produce sanitary towels for low-income women. Having won...

A Times of India article discusses how Coca-Cola is investing $2 billion in India over the next five years, and how tailoring...

PepsiCo continues to cater to India’s low-income populations through new product and services development and new solutions to rising inflation. Most recently,...

Wharton, the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, recently published a blog post on the state of the computer tablet market...

The Hindu’s Business Line recently had an article on the evolution of Intellecap, a social business consultancy in India. Writer Murali Gopalan...

A new report by PwC discusses then ‘next four billion’ and ways to create profitable growth strategies for the global emerging middle...

The Northeastern state of Tripura has invested in making homeopathy available to thousands of its residents by investing in ICT to deliver...

Gurgaon-based Lok Capital venture fund in India has recently invested $3 million into rural business process outsourcing (BPO) firm RuralShores Business Services...

The Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (ACSEP) is an academic research centre at the National University of Singapore Business School,...

Intellecap, the organisation that runs The Sankalp Forum, The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the German Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale...

India's Census 2011, first socioeconomic census in more than 10 years, shows that despite some progress in basic connectivity such as through...

A recent Business Line article has reported that GE Energy is set to explore the distribution of various water technologies to rural...

The Guardian’s Sustainable Business Blog presents an article by Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Managing Director of FSG Social Impact Consultants. Vaidyanathan discusses the need...

Bridges Ventures is an investment company whose commercial expertise is used to deliver both financial returns and social and environmental benefits. File...

A recent Poverty Matters blog in The Guardian challenges the concept of ‘financial inclusion’ as a critical poverty alleviation tool, as promoted...

L&T Insurance company has recently partnered with SEWA, the Self-Employed Women’s Association, to make VimoSEWA, a national insurance cooperative, its first microinsurance...

The new book, I Have a Dream by Rashmi Bansal, an Indian economics and management graduate, includes a number of case studies...

French dairy group, Groupe Danone, has recently set up an Indian business unit to promote products that target the mass markets or...

A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute finds that while India has reduced its official poverty rate, more than half a...

As the India Office of Bain & Co., the global blue chip management consultancy, reports a significant rise in India of philanthropic...

A recent article in The Hindu highlighted the fact that most of India will only achieve the millennium development goals (MDG) on...

A recent Forbes India article discusses PepsiCo India’s new chairman, Manu Anand’s, strategy for developing a business model that better reaches BOP...

Long a scourge of land owners and those building homes and offices in India, the government is introducing legislation that will require...

April 5, 2013 marked 1000 days to the end of 2015. At the end of 2015, India and all the other signatory...

The 2012 Asian Venture Philanthropy Network’s (AVPN) roadshow is visiting Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo with venture philanthropy leaders Shaks Ghosh...

A recent Huffington Post article describes a range of initiatives supported by the Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP), which facilitates interest-free micro...