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To Measure Social Impact, We Could Start by Using the Tools We Already Have

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Mastercard's Project Kirana helps women entrepreneurs in India adopt digital payments, empowering them and creating role models. No concrete business takes affecting stock price.
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This article originally appeared on Fortune.com

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / August 21, 2023 / Renu runs one of the millions of mom-and-pop stores, known as kiranas, located all over India. She wanted to expand her business, but as a cash-only operation, couldn't show banks that she was a worthy investment. An initiative called Project Kirana, launched by Mastercard and its partners, helped Renu adopt digital payments, creating the formal transaction history that would show her business was booming.

Renu is one of the 25 million women entrepreneurs we've reached with business solutions since 2020, fulfilling a global pledge to bring greater opportunities to women who have been on the wrong side of the digital divide for too long.

Measuring the number of women shop owners in India who went digital is the easy part. But how do you calculate the value of financially empowering a generation of women and creating role models for the generations to come? And more broadly, how do you measure any social impact project to show its economic benefits and that it reached its intended goals?

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The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Monday, August 21, 2023, Press release picture
Investing in women entrepreneurs has an impact on their families and the wider community. DEBAJYOTI CHAKRABORTY-NURPHOTO/GETTY IMAGES. Photo courtesy of Fortune.com

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SOURCE: The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth



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