Posts by Thaiseo

How Inclusive Finance Can Address the World’s Most Fundamental Challenge: Food Security, Nutrition and the European Microfinance Award 2023

According to the World Food Programme, the world is facing “a food crisis of unprecedented proportions.” Joana Afonso, Sam Mendelson,...

Outgrowing the Flower Pot: Why Just Selling Productive Equipment to Smallholder Farmers is Not Enough

A new wave of companies are bringing equipment powered by renewable, decentralized energy to smallholders, and these devices can significantly...

How U.S. Businesses Can Compete with China in Emerging Markets: Transitioning from a ‘Death Economy’ to a ‘Life Economy’

For decades, American businesses working in emerging markets have prioritized profit maximization regardless of the social and environmental costs —...

Can Pay-As-You-Go Help Clean Up Clean Cooking?

Since 2015, the global focus on clean cooking has grown substantially, bringing more funding, research and attention from policymakers to...

Forget about Mobile Money, Invest in Insurtech Instead: The Untapped Triple Bottom Line Opportunity in Nigeria

Nigeria has one of the lowest insurance penetration rates in the world, at just 0.5%. But as Brian Yu at...

A Blueprint for Closing the SDG Financing Gap: How to Raise $290 Billion in 12 Months to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems

As of 2020, the annual SDG financing gap for developing countries stood at $4.2 trillion — up from $2.5 trillion...

The New Face of Emerging Market Outsourcing: Why African Talent is Primed to Reshape Global Business Processes

The global labor market has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s normalization of remote work and the resulting “great resignation,”...

A DIY Approach to M&E: Four Tips to Overcome the Complexities of Monitoring and Evaluation

Most social enterprises and non-profits recognize that high-quality data and evidence can help them improve performance, attract more funding, and...

How Inclusive Finance Can Address the World’s Most Fundamental Challenge: Food Security, Nutrition and the European Microfinance Award 2023

According to the World Food Programme, the world is facing “a food crisis of unprecedented proportions.” Joana Afonso, Sam Mendelson,...

Outgrowing the Flower Pot: Why Just Selling Productive Equipment to Smallholder Farmers is Not Enough

A new wave of companies are bringing equipment powered by renewable, decentralized energy to smallholders, and these devices can significantly...