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This article argues that multi-national corporations need to develop new strategies and partnerships in the informal economy in order to operate successfully in new markets at the base of the pyramid.

This report details lessons learned from ‘Pro-poor tourism pilots, Southern Africa’ (PPT Pilots), which ran from 2002-2005 and aimed to work directly with 5 pilot partners to help them implement pro poor tourism and to learn from their experiences.

This Guidebook illuminates the critical part played by brokers in multi sector partnerships as both process managers and behind the scenes leaders. It focuses on partnership brokering – that essential intermediary function that enables partners to work well together and ensure the maximum effectiveness of their partnership.

This report looks at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, its structure, function, and activities, and plans to further partner with corporations and multilateral agencies. It addresses the question of whether a multi-sectoral partnership is a useful framework for addressing micronutrient deficiencies and what some of the challenges and lessons have been thus far.

This article on Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks describes how successful inclusive businesses often include networks of companies, not-for-profit organizations and communities.

This guidebook explores the role of partnership brokers in multi-sector partnerships as both process managers and behind-the-scenes leaders. It outlines and supports in practical ways the many tasks that a broker may undertake on behalf of partners during the life-cycle of a partnership for sustainable development.

This report examines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) can best be harnessed to extend the reach and effectiveness of aid to address international and national development challenges. It explores the role of PPPs in mobilising resources for basic sanitation, health as well as water and sanitation.

This report discusses the experiences of a 'KATALYST' project intervention within the vegetable sector in Rangpur, Bangladesh that is addressing the issue of 'low productivity' by focusing on the training of agricultural input retailers and the development of “embedded services” within the input supply chain. It outlines the analysis that underpins the intervention, gives details of what was done and how, and highlights initial changes arising from it.

This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature: transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning, to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chains are governed and change.

This study looks at Unilever in Indonesia and examines its business activities for their direct and indirect socio-economic impacts on the poor. It attempts to improve the understanding of the relationship between big business and poverty reduction, and it suggests that the extent to which the wealth created by business can reduce poverty is determined by many factors, an industry's operating structure and the values and strategies of individual companies within it are critical factors.