TY - BOOK AU - Kandachar,Prabhu AU - Halme,Minna TI - Sustainability challenges and solutions at the base of the pyramid: business, technology and the poor SN - 9781906093112 (hbk.) U1 - 338.642 KAN 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Sheffield, U.K. PB - Greenleaf Pub. KW - Small business KW - Poverty KW - Sustainable development N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -