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Inclusive Businesses in Asia Should Tap Into Impact Investing

avpn Nov 20, 2019
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Giving Compass’ Take:

• Inclusive businesses in Asia should tap impact investing opportunities for three main reasons: to help break the cycle of poverty, to catalyze partnerships, and align investments with business activities. 

• How do the goals of inclusive businesses align with impact investing practices? 

• Read about the social investment landscape in Asia.


Impact investing is growing in Asia, but identifying investable opportunities that align with your mission as an investor can be trying. The Inclusive Business (IB) sector presents a unique opportunity to address this challenge.

Inclusive businesses are for-profit organisations that deliberate incorporates the base of the pyramid in their value chains, providing sustainable livelihoods and enabling profits in the same effort. The largest sectors in Asia are Agriculture, Wellness and Tourism and Waste Management.

Adoption or even awareness of IB models and language in Asia are only now beginning to take root. Despite the nascency of this space, strong examples of success exist and make a compelling case for further investment in this space.

Here’s why you need to tap into IBs:

  • Contribute to breaking the poverty cycle
  • Catalyse systemic impact through partnerships: 
  • Align your personal values with your business activities

Read the full article about opportunities in impact investing in Asia by Sangeetha Watson at avpn.

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    Giving Compass' Take: • Sasha Dichter and Tom Adams explain how Lean Data was created to measure impact investments through customer feedback and financial metrics. • How are you measuring impact? Has your organization found a measurement system that captures all of the information you need?  • Learn at The Power of Feedback magazine on Giving Compass.  We all know that understanding customers is at the core of running a successful business. This is especially true for businesses that aim to improve customers’ lives. Yet too often, especially for those aiming to create social change, we end up relying on well-developed strategies and desk research to understand what should happen for customers, and we don’t regularly gather customer data to understand whether these strategies are playing out in their lives. How can this be right? Shouldn’t regularly and systematically talking to customers help us with our two most important, intertwined goals: creating successful businesses that create social change? How could we build a sector that delivers large-scale social impact if we didn’t invest in gathering data directly from customers so they could tell us if their lives are improving? We developed Lean Data to address these core questions. Our goal has been to find a way to hear directly from customers, even those in the most remote locations, in ways that creates value for them, for the companies that serve them, and for investors. Read the full article about measuring impact investments by Sasha Dichter and Tom Adams at ImpactAlpha.


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