Impact Investing
Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
Tag: India
Design Thinking
Cool Carts
Cooling innovation helps food hawkers who cannot afford conventional refrigeration.
Food
Reimagining the Spice Trade
Diaspora Co. strives to bring South Asia’s heirloom and single-origin spices to the United States while ensuring that partner farms and farmworkers thrive.
Technology
Startups Are Making the Global Gig Economy Bigger. But Can They Make It Better?
Founders and investors should think about more than scale as they roll out gig economy platforms to the developing world. Doing so won’t just help workers; it will give platforms a better chance at success.
Economic Development
Drone Sisters
A new government program in India is training women to become agricultural drone pilots to increase their financial security and modernize farming.
Technology
Digital Public Infrastructure for the Developing World
The “India Stack” provides a model for how developing economies can empower informal business and drive inclusive growth.
Cities
Metro Rail Comes to Hyderabad
One of India’s largest cities launched the world’s biggest public-private partnership metro rail project to construct essential public transit for its bustling metropolis. Its leaders overcame numerous hurdles by cultivating a stakeholder mindset.
Economic Development
How Social Ties Exacerbated a Crisis
Microfinance relies on social networks for repayment, but those same networks can backfire during a financial crisis.
sponsored
Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India
How rural women are unbraiding borders to reclaim power in agrarian India
Philanthropy & Funding
India’s Corporate Philanthropy
Indian companies tend to spend required social outlays on important stakeholder groups.