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Sustainability challenges and solutions at the base of the pyramid : business, technology and the poor / edited by Prabhu Kandachar and Minna Halme.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sheffield, U.K. : Greenleaf Pub., ©2008Description: xi, 532 pages : illustrations; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781906093112 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 338.642 KAN DS1358
Contents:
pt. I. Inclusive markets and BoP strategies -- pt. II. Local enterprises at the BoP : cooparative effors -- pt. III. Are BoP consumers and citizens included? -- pt. IV. Capabilities, opportunities and challenges for MNCs in developing BoP business -- pt. V. Sustainability challenges and solutions.
Summary: Around the turn of the millennium it had become painfully evident that development aid, charity or ""global business-as-usual"" were not going to be the mechanisms to alleviate global poverty. This book takes a bottom-up human-centred approach and examines examples that engage the poor in BoP product and service development.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Inclusive markets and BoP strategies -- pt. II. Local enterprises at the BoP : cooparative effors -- pt. III. Are BoP consumers and citizens included? -- pt. IV. Capabilities, opportunities and challenges for MNCs in developing BoP business -- pt. V. Sustainability challenges and solutions.

Around the turn of the millennium it had become painfully evident that development aid, charity or ""global business-as-usual"" were not going to be the mechanisms to alleviate global poverty. This book takes a bottom-up human-centred approach and examines examples that engage the poor in BoP product and service development.

English.

Gift of David Satterthwaite.

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