Promise and Progress: Market-Based Solutions to Poverty in Africa
This report provides detailed findings from a study of enterprises that use market mechanisms to improve the lives and livelihoods of people living at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Examining data from 439 enterprises in 14 sectors and nine sub-Saharan companies, the report suggests three models that work and three models to watch. It describes the success factors, routes to scale and the lessons to learn from the case examples illustrated.