Good quality, affordable housing is an area of great unmet need in urban India, with the potential to impact more than 20 million households. In 2006, Monitor Inclusive Markets started working to catalyze this market, believing it to be a space where a market-based solution was not only viable, but could drive significant social impact at scale. A product of this work is Monitor’s “State of the Market” study commissioned by India’s National Housing Bank.

For prospective homeowners in India’s low-income bracket, the options for securing financing have traditionally been slim. But thanks to a growing number of housing finance companies that focus on low-income, informal sector customers, many people are getting a second chance at a loan, writes Monitor senior manager Nishant Lalwani in an article for the leading Indian business magazine Business Today.

The world’s rapidly growing megacities represent significant opportunities for companies seeking new markets and justify a unique approach to an important source of potential growth. In this article, Jennifer Lacks Kaplan and Mark Pocharski explain what it takes for companies to build winning strategies to take advantage of this growth opportunity.

In this article, “How Innovation Really Works,” experts from Monitor produced a special research report with Business Today to explore how Monitor’s Ten Types of Innovation™ framework applies to growing, innovative companies in India.

In this presentation to the Estonian Development Fund, Monitor co-founder Joseph Fuller explains the necessary elements for nations working on a vision for economic development drawing on his experience working with more than 35 countries creating national and regional economic strategies.

This report presents insights from a year-long project undertaken by the Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network (GBN) , designed to explore the role of technology in international development through scenario planning, a methodology in which Monitor's GBN is a long-time leader. 

In a new report tracking sovereign wealth fund investments, Monitor Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei found that the funds had adapted to the global economic downturn by realigning investment strategies with long-term goals and pursuing joint investments to share risk.

In this essay for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Monitor co-founder Joseph Fuller argues that leading Korean corporations, after weathering the economic downturn well, need fresh thinking to move ahead in the global economy.

The future of China's consumer economy will depend on how consumers lives evolve in the future. This paper examines aspects of consumers' lives -- where they will live, how societal changes will impact their families, their choices and behavior -- to examine questions about the future of the Chinese consumer landscape.