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Ladies First: Investing in women-owned SMEs
It pays to invest in women, in more ways than one. Increasing women’s incomes improves countries’ human development indicators and raises their per capita income. Research also indicates that women-owned SMEs have higher repayment rates. Tara Sabre Collier explores ways to better synergize impact investing and women’s economic empowerment.
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- Impact Assessment
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Understanding Risk, Then Adapting : How to overcome the fear of working with the base of the pyramid?
Facing risk takes an entrepreneurial spirit as well as managerial willingness to innovate. Innovating is equivalent to making mistakes; accessing BoP markets demands risk tolerance, and a trial and error dynamic. The question then is how to manage risk? In 2003, in the middle of the microcredit boom in Brazil, Tenda Atacado, a São Paulo-based wholesale company, faced what seemed to be a very risky endeavor.
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