Make Poverty Business
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Author |
: Craig Wilson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2017-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351280464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351280465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Make Poverty Business by : Craig Wilson
Poor people in developing countries could make excellent suppliers, employees and customers but are often ignored by major businesses. This omission leads to increased risk, higher costs and lower sales. Meanwhile, businesses are asked by governments and poverty activists to do more for economic development, but their exhortations are rarely based on a proper business case. Make Poverty Business bridges the gap by constructing a rigorous profit-making argument for multinational corporations to do more business with the poor. It takes economic development out of the corporate social responsibility ghetto and places it firmly in the core business interests of the corporation, and argues that to see the poor only as potential consumers at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) misses half of the story. Make Poverty Business examines the successes, failures and missed opportunities of a wide range of global companies including Wal-Mart, BP, Unilever, Shell and HSBC when dealing with the poor and with development advocates in the media, NGOs, governments and international organisations. It includes a discussion on how to use a poverty perspective to provoke profitable innovation – not only to create new products and services but also to find new sources of competitive advantage in the supply chain and to develop more sustainable, lower-cost business models in developing countries. Make Poverty Business will be essential reading for international business managers seeking to increase profits and decrease risks in developing countries, development advocates who seek to harness the profit motive to achieve reductions in poverty, and academics looking for practical strategies on how business can implement BOP initiatives in developing countries.
Author |
: V. Kashturi Rangan |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 455 |
Release |
: 2007-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780787988548 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0787988545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Business Solutions for the Global Poor by : V. Kashturi Rangan
Based on research presented at The Harvard Business School’s first-ever conference on business approaches to poverty alleviation, Business Solutions for the Global Poor brings together perspectives from leading academics and corporate, non-profit and public sector managers. The contributors draw on practical and dynamic how-to insights from leading BOP ventures from more than twenty countries world-wide. This important volume reflects poverty’s multi-faceted nature and a broad range of actors—multinational and local businesses, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and governments—that play a role in its alleviation.
Author |
: Paul Polak |
Publisher |
: Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2013-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609940782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609940784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Business Solution to Poverty by : Paul Polak
Authors Paul Polak and Mal Warwick describe their Zero-Based Design of starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor to show how their design principles and vision can enable unapologetic capitalists to supply the very poor with clean drinking water, electricity, irrigation, housing, education, health care, and other necessities at a fraction of the usual cost and at profit margins attractive to investors.
Author |
: Muhammad Yunus |
Publisher |
: Public Affairs |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2009-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781586486679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1586486675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating a World Without Poverty by : Muhammad Yunus
The author describes his vision for an innovative business model that would combine the power of free markets with a quest for a more humane, egalitarian world that could help alleviate world poverty, inequality, and other social problems.
Author |
: Doug Seebeck |
Publisher |
: Faith Alive Christian Resources |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1592555004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592555000 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Business, My Mission by : Doug Seebeck
Author |
: Dr Daphne Halkias |
Publisher |
: Gower Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2012-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409460480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1409460487 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entrepreneurship and Sustainability by : Dr Daphne Halkias
In Entrepreneurship and Sustainability the editors and contributors challenge the notion that not-for-profit social entrepreneurship is the only sort that can lead to the alleviation of poverty. Entrepreneurship for profit is not just about the entrepreneur doing well. Entrepreneurs worldwide are leading successful for-profit ventures which contribute to poverty alleviation in their communities. With the challenge of global poverty before them, entrepreneurs continue to develop innovative, business-oriented ventures that deliver promising solutions to this complex and urgent agenda. This book explores how to bring commercial investors together with those who are best placed to reach the poorest customers. With case studies from around the World, the focus of the contributions is on the new breed of entrepreneurs who are blending a profit motive with a desire to make a difference in their communities and beyond borders. A number of the contributions here also recognize that whilst much research has been devoted to poverty alleviation in developing countries, this is only part of the story. Studies in this volume also focus upon enterprise solutions to poverty in pockets of significant deprivation in high-income countries, such as the Appalachia region of the US, in parts of Europe, and the richer Asian countries. Much has been written about the achievements of socially orientated non-profit microfinance institutions. This valuable, academically rigorous but accessible book will help academics, policy makers, and business people consider what the next generation of more commercially orientated banks for the 'bottom billion' might look like.
Author |
: A. Karnani |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230120235 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230120237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting Poverty Together by : A. Karnani
In this hard-hitting polemical Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with today's approaches to reducing poverty. He proposes an eclectic approach to poverty reduction that emphasizes the need for business, government and civil society to partner together to create employment opportunities for the poor.
Author |
: Paul W. Thurman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317142607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317142608 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Entrepreneurship and Sustainability by : Paul W. Thurman
In Entrepreneurship and Sustainability the editors and contributors challenge the notion that not-for-profit social entrepreneurship is the only sort that can lead to the alleviation of poverty. Entrepreneurship for profit is not just about the entrepreneur doing well. Entrepreneurs worldwide are leading successful for-profit ventures which contribute to poverty alleviation in their communities. With the challenge of global poverty before them, entrepreneurs continue to develop innovative, business-oriented ventures that deliver promising solutions to this complex and urgent agenda. This book explores how to bring commercial investors together with those who are best placed to reach the poorest customers. With case studies from around the World, the focus of the contributions is on the new breed of entrepreneurs who are blending a profit motive with a desire to make a difference in their communities and beyond borders. A number of the contributions here also recognize that whilst much research has been devoted to poverty alleviation in developing countries, this is only part of the story. Studies in this volume also focus upon enterprise solutions to poverty in pockets of significant deprivation in high-income countries, such as the Appalachia region of the US, in parts of Europe, and the richer Asian countries. Much has been written about the achievements of socially orientated non-profit microfinance institutions. This valuable, academically rigorous but accessible book will help academics, policy makers, and business people consider what the next generation of more commercially orientated banks for the 'bottom billion' might look like.
Author |
: Ann Harrison |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 674 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226318004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226318001 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalization and Poverty by : Ann Harrison
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Author |
: Gary MacDougal |
Publisher |
: Gary MacDougal |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2005-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780312347260 |
ISBN-13 |
: 031234726X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Make a Difference by : Gary MacDougal
We now know the answers to helping long time welfare recipients become self-sufficient, and how to pry loose the dead hand of human service bureaucracies. "I enjoy coming to work and learning different things...I really like my kids to know I work...This should have happened 10 years ago...I believe many of my friends wouldn't do no drugs if they had a chance for a real job." - Rebecca, a woman from Chicago's notorious housing projects, high school dropout and former welfare recipient now working at UPS. The problems with welfare systems is not a lack of funds, but rather failure to connect the funds to families and communities in a way that makes a difference in people's lives. Through involvement with welfare recipients, community leaders, caseworkers and others, author Gary MacDougal and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar led the state government in its biggest reorganization since 1900, creating a model for the rest of the nation.