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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

But the reality is that high margins and very strong profitability are necessities for businesses serving what I prefer to call D and E consumers, those in the bottom two layers of the economic pyramid. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. The result has been explosive growth.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. As the sector grows through this period of creative destruction, models that don’t work will die out, models that survive will attract copycats, operating costs will go down, and winners will rise to the top.