Employment Generation in India:
Impact Enterprises vs. Business Enterprises

Outcomes of the 2025 GSG Global Leadership Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, where 136 impact leaders from 45 countries gathered to advance the impact economy. It details key discussions, new resources launched, and actionable strategies developed for mobilising capital, financing SMEs, influencing government policy, and improving impact transparency.

The report offers impact economy ecosystem analysis on impact progress in 34 countries with cross-cutting insights. What's unique is that it offers more than market sizing data; it explains how countries are redesigning for impact through policy and practices, building the infrastructure and incentives for impact economies. This includes tracking government actions, market building, impact capital supply, impact capital demand, and contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The GSG Impact Partnership reached a pivotal moment, now spanning 46 countries and covering 65% of the world’s population. Our work in 2024 was centred around (i) advancing impact economies by expanding our community and nurturing ecosystem growth (ii) mobilising private capital at scale, especially in emerging markets, and (iii) enabling greater inclusivity in global sustainability disclosure standards.