Posts by Development Impact
How to Train Entrepreneurs? Don’t Overload Their Cognitive Bandwidth
Less is more when it comes to business training for entrepreneurs, especially for women whose cognitive bandwidth is already overtaxed by business and household demands.
How to Make the Sustainable Development Goals More Meaningful for the Private Sector
After IDB Invest’s Sustainability Week 2019 in June, we distilled some key takeaways for the private sector on the Sustainable Development Goals. Here’s what we found.
Do you speak the universal language of the Sustainable Development Goals?
Aligning to the SDGs does not have to mean colossal change. Firms must recognize that the SDGs provide a framework for communicating progress in a globally-recognized language.
Can your trip to the beach help reduce poverty?
As summer comes to an end in the Northern Hemisphere, many of us have been asking and answering the same question: how was your vacation? Our responses typically include anecdotes about the food, people, and places we encountered along the way. Perhaps we could also be asking ourselves how our vacation impacted those people and places.
Why is mobile broadband quality so important for development?
Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of contrasts. Almost everyone has a cell phone, as evidenced by the exponential increase in mobile phone subscribers from 10% of the population in 2000 to over 70% in 2017. And, the region is home to some of the most advanced mobile internet and avid social media users in the world, led by Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Yet coverage varies across countries and millions of people still do not have access to reliable mobile broadband connections, particularly in rural areas. And, even for those with access, service quality is often poor, limiting their potential to take full advantage of the latest technologies and making it difficult to bridge the digital divide.
What can the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean learn from Korea’s economic miracle?
They say that Korea achieved in three decades what it took the Western industrialized countries more than a century to do. But, how did it do that?