Sustainable Development Report 2020 (SDR 2020 ) says the world needs to learn from good practices, focus on hunger hotspots, strengthen financing mechanisms, provide social protection and develop drugs to recover better from Covd-19.
Poverty
‘Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty’ by MIT’s Abhijit V Banerjee and Esther Duflo argues that anti-poverty policies are flawed because of lack of understanding of poverty and its reasons and have laid down a fresh approach based on learning from past experiences.
After making their mark in leading multinationals, IIM and IIT alumni are now taking their success stories a step further and heading influential NGOs tackling challenges ranging from protection of human rights to mitigating climate change.
Two Indian companies LifeSpring Hospitals and Reuters Market Light are among the ten global companies to bag this year’s World Business and Development Awards.
Going by the response to his just-released Building Social Business, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is on the verge of ushering in a social business wave to address problems like poverty.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus pushes the envelop further to midwife the birth of two social investment funds and a social stock market to add more building blocks to an emerging global social business ecosystem.
Using mobile technology to deliver financial services can be transformational for poverty alleviation as it links people without bank accounts to formal economic ecosystem.
C K Prahalad’s revised edition of ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ carries an update on the private sector’s changing role in poverty alleviation, development of new market opportunities, and evolution of rules that drive the engagement of businesses with emerging markets.