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Impact Harvest Forum 2025 – Investing in Inclusive Businesses

Access to finance remains an issue for many inclusive businesses seeking to expand their operations or deepen their impact. Businesses face multiple challenges including the cost of capital and the scarce availability of affordable finance beyond the early stage. Investment readiness is also an issue, with companies facing difficulties in

Accelerating Financial Inclusion for Women’s SHGs with Account Aggregators

The emergence of Digital Public Infrastructure like Account Aggregators (AA) paves the way for financial inclusion of many underserved communities in India. It has the potential to empower millions of customers to digitally access and share their financial data across institutions, resulting in the creation of their digital financial identity. 

For the Right Frame of Mind

In this column, Shrutee Ganguly talks about how taking care of employees’ mental wellbeing must be a priority for the sector.

Livelihood Funding Landscape

Across donors, more than half of the initiatives they are prioritising are related to skilling, but of these,there is little focus on entrepreneurship and social protection.

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The Promise of OCEN for Nano Entrepreneurs

Micro and nano enterprises, also considered India’s economic engines, cannot realise their full potential in contributing to the economy due to their lack of access to formal, affordable credit.

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Opinion: How To Solve India’s Digital Divide

Despite being perceived as digital natives by parents, teachers, and policymakers, school-going children in India are not supported sufficiently to foster their digital literacy. The shortage of digital skills among the country’s youth is also worrying and coexists with a rapidly evolving job market where 90% of positions already entail

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