Around the globe, there are…

Blog by Madeleine Anderson, CEO of Equity for Africa (EFA) which has established a specialised small business leasing institution in Tanzania.  Madeleine was one of the winners of the G20 SME Finance Challenge. She previously worked in…

By Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group

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Blog post written for Business Fights Poverty by Emily Alpert, Senior Policy Manager, Agriculture, ONE

By now we have all seen the images of severely…

Post by Joseph Marks for Devex, orginally published here and reproduced…

Blog by Peter Davis, private sector and markets team at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).  Blog first appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business.  Reproduced with permission from ODI.

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Blog written for Business Fights Poverty by Ian Alsworth- Elvey, Managing Director, Southern Sudan Beverages Ltd (the local subsidiary of SABMiller plc)

Given recent news reports about ongoing conflicts in Abyei and South Kordofan, you would be forgiven for thinking that…

Blog written for Business Fights Poverty by Michael Jarvis, World Bank Institue

Can social entrepreneurs forge a more productive collaboration with corporations? One that is good for business growth but also tackles development challenges? Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich suggest just that in a new article in…

Are you a fashion designer or business owner striving to work to high ethical and eco standards?

The Ethical Fashion Forum's annual…

Do you know an innovative project in Nutrition, Water or Rural Development that would benefit from an investment of CHF 500 000 (more than USD 480 000)?

You can help to scale up by nominating it for the Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value. Nominations and self-nominations are welcome until the 30th…

© Lake of Stars.Noisettes + Jaccranda.

By Tom Porter and Will Jameson, Directors, Lake of Stars, the award winning festival that takes place each year…

Blog by Matthew Kirk, Group External Affairs Director, Vodafone Group and Steve Bratt, Chief Executive Officer, World Wide Web Foundation, about the twelfth in the Series of Policy Papers, launched on 19 May 2011, from the Vodafone Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile (SIM)…

This week Business Action for Africa and its partners are hosting a series of events in Cape Town focusing on the important connections between business and development in Africa.  The first of these will look at “inclusive business models” that expand access to goods, services and jobs amongst low-income communities through company value chains,…

Blog written for Business Fights Poverty by Aneel Karnani, author of the new book, "Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty".  Signed copy for the best blog comment!…

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By Harriet Lamb, Executive Director, Fairtrade UK



Over the next two weeks, plenty of people in Britain will be focusing on how business can…

This year marks the midpoint in one of the most ambitious poverty-elimination efforts ever undertaken – the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG). In this pivotal year, when the objectives are being reassessed and strategies retooled to achieve these objectives, the biennial World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) in support of the goals, to be unveiled 24 September, will throw ambitious and innovative efforts by business to help meet these targets into the limelight.



As UN…