This report discusses the newest developments of entrepreneurial pioneers implementing market-based innovations to serve the global poor. These ambitious entrepreneurs are taking great risks for little potential financial reward, but for tremendous potential social value. Such ideas have elicited a rush to the new field of ‘impact investing’. But the field is young and many investors report that they are struggling to find good opportunities in which to invest for impact.
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This publication provides the key definitions and concepts needed to understand low-income groups (referred to as the Base of the Pyramid) and partnerships with inclusive business.
PPPLAB (2015): Partnerships for Inclusive Business Development. URL [Accessed: 07.03.2018]This website provides background information about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and updates on the recent developments regarding progress of the different objectives.
United Nations (UN) (2015): Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. United Nations URL [Accessed: 07.03.2018]Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) is a UN-Water initiative having the objective to provide policy- and decision-makers at all levels with a reliable, easily accessible, comprehensive and global analysis of the investments and enabling environment to make informed decisions for sanitation, drinking-water and hygiene.
WHO (2018): UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAS). World Health Organization (WHO) URL [Accessed: 07.03.2018]The article sums up the history of water fluoridation in the US. It has appeared in Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.