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Announcing Our New Series: NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles
NextBillion runs our "Most Influential Articles" contest at the end of each year, in which we select 12 of our most-read articles from the previous year and invite readers to vote for their favorites. Since 2021 marked the 10th year of the contest, we're commemorating a full decade of thought-provoking analysis and opinion from entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and others in the emerging markets business and social enterprise sectors with a new series highlighting all of NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles from 2012 to today.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Most Companies Align with SDGs – But There’s More to Do on Assessing Progress
A new study has revealed that four-in-five companies assessed now include a commitment in their sustainability reports to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Impact Assessment
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- Global
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- global development, SDGs
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Linking the Needs of Customers and Providers: A Framework for Effective Financial Health Measurement
Many financial service providers (FSPs) want to improve the financial health of their low-income users, but they often struggle to measure it. According to Nishant Kumar and Sonal Agrawal at Lakshya, one key challenge is that many FSPs don't see the business benefits of investing in financial health measurement. They share three principles that can help providers understand the distinct needs of different user groups, and develop a measurement methodology that links customers with interventions that impact their financial health – while boosting the FSPs' bottom line.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Report: Corporate Reporting Evolving Fast but ESG Gaps Exist
It is important that the approach to communicating a company’s ESG performance should evolve quickly to earn the trust of stakeholders, the report said.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2021
At the end of each year, NextBillion selects our 12 most-read articles from the previous 12 months, and invites readers to vote for the pieces that impacted them the most. We've counted the votes, and we’re happy to announce our three most influential articles of 2021. We’d like to congratulate the winners and all the contestants in this contest – along with everyone who read and wrote for NextBillion last year. We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous 2022.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- data, energy access, ESG, impact measurement
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Vote for NextBillion’s Most Influential Article of 2021
As an open forum for emerging markets business, NextBillion publishes around 150 original, guest-written articles per year, covering enterprises, innovations, challenges and opportunities across multiple sectors and geographies. Each December we select the 12 most-read articles of the past year to include in our "Most Influential Article of the Year" contest. We invite you to vote for the article that impacted you the most in 2021. You can vote up to one time per hour during the two-week voting period, which runs from Dec. 20 to Jan. 2.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy, Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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Analysis: How Environmental Reporting Can Help in Fighting Climate Change
Companies must measure and disclose the impact they have on our environment. Quality reporting can accelerate decarbonisation and identify opportunities for value creation.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: New Index Measures Resilience of Emerging Markets to Climate Change
As the developing world bears the brunt of climate change, iDE has launched an index which measures the resilience of emerging markets to shocks and stressors, setting a new industry standard for development work.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Global
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- climate change
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