With the rapid mobile penetration in emerging economies, FinTech may easily be the buzz word or the flavor of this decade. While FinTech refers to firms leveraging technology to deliver financial products/services or capabilities to customers or othe

India is home to the world’s largest unbanked population. Over the last decade, the Government of India has taken various policy measures to promote financial inclusion, including the introduction of the business correspondent (BC) model. These pol

Success in inclusive business depends on getting the business model right. But so far there is little known about which business models work, how long success takes and what success looks like in practice. 4Ps of inclusive business: How perseverance

In 2013, Sankalp Forum expanded in to Africa with the ambition of accelerating enterprise growth and building a South-South corridor to promote greater learning and partnerships between developing countries. Sankalp in Africa launched with an emergin

Long considered an immutable fact of life in India, extreme poverty is finally in retreat. India launched its first wave of economic reforms in the early 1990s, resulting in a decline in the official poverty ratio from 45 percent in 1994 to 37 percen

From Paper to Practice: Learning from the journeys of inclusive business start-ups explores findings from the portfolio of inclusive businesses supported by Innovations Against Poverty (IAP), a grant programme established by Sida in 2011. It draws p