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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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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore David Satterthwaite Collection 338.642 KAN DS1358 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DS1358

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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