Profit with Purpose: How Women-Inclusive Business Practices Drive SME Success
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: July 18, 2024
- Team: Sabine Garbarino, Yaquta Fatehi, Erin Markel, Jenny Stankowski, Ryan Bourque
- Recommended Citation: Garbarino, Sabine and Fatehi, Yaquta. "Profit with Purpose: How Women-Inclusive Business Practices Drive SME Success." Business Fights Poverty. July 18, 2024. https://businessfightspoverty.org/profit-with-purpose-how-women-inclusive-business-practices-drive-sme-success/.
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are powerful drivers of economic growth: they account for 90 percent of businesses, more than 50 percent of employment, and create two out of three jobs globally. This presents a significant untapped opportunity to advance gender equality in low- and middle-income countries.
This recent article from Business Fights Poverty examines how inclusive investments advance growth for SMEs and shares insights from the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment case study series.
This blog was originally published by Business Fights Poverty on July 18, 2024.
