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Este documento presenta una guía bajo la experiencia del Consejo Empresarial Mundial para el Desarrollo Sostenible para aquellas empresas que buscan hacer negocio con los pobres. Esto lo hace a través de los aprendizajes de 12 empresas internacionales y una serie de preguntar para orientar el trabajo de las empresas.

This paper provides insights into how business models can be structured to generate profits to justify investments, while integrating and serving the needs of the poorest citizens. It uses three cases of successful partnerships from Bangladesh and India. The paper aims to generate ideas about the opportunities available to companies working in tandem with local entrepreneurial organisations to build business models that are able to achieve multiple strategic objectives concomitantly.

This report suggests a conceptual framework on ways through which companies can support social entrepreneurship. It focuses on: (1) a company’s core business operations in the workplace, marketplace and along the value chain; (2) its social investment and strategic philanthropy activities; and (3) its engagement in public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building. It outlines the ‘business case’ on how alliances can help companies meet their business goals, and offers a set of recommendations for business leaders, social entrepreneurs, foundations and governments on how they can work together to increase the scale and effectiveness of these alliances for mutual benefit.

This study examines the current state of tourism in The Gambia, West Africa, and proposes a series of practical measures to enhance the flow of benefits to the poor. It is based on a framework of international ‘best practice’ for boosting benefits for the poor, combined with innovative local economic analysis that maps the current flows of benefits to a range of stakeholders from the tourism value chain in The Gambia.

This journal covers different topics of microfinance and microenterprises. It contains articles on sources of microfinance, best practices of microfinance institutes and on the role of the public sector and commercial banks in supporting micro entrepreneurs from the base of the pyramid. It highlights how the poor can access the markets with a special focus on public procurement markets, the development of associations and partnerships and on value chains and linkages.

Este documento desarrolla las dinámicas de las cadenas productivas de arroz, lácteos, madera, cacao y cerdos en la región del atlántico norte de Nicaragua. Así mismo desarrolla propuestas para mejorar el acceso de los pequeños productores a mercados locales, nacionales e internacionales.

Este documento presenta un mapeo de la base de la pirámide en 20 países de Latinoamerica, considerando cuestiones de ingreso y gastos.

Esta publicación desarrolla una guía para la gestión de emprendimientos sociales, abarcando temas de liderazgo, estrategia, cultura organizacional, recursos humanos, finanzas, estructura, relación con organismos gubernamentales y medición de impacto.

This report reviews the potential for business to contribute to public health systems in developing countries - it outlines the challenges facing public health systems and why good health systems matter to business. It discusses the role of the private sector across three areas: core business activities, philanthropy and social investment, and public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building and it provides successful case examples and initiatives.

This report suggests a conceptual framework on the contribution of business to development - it focuses on three corporate ‘spheres of influence’: (1) a company’s core business operations in the workplace, marketplace and along the value chain; (2) its social investment and strategic philanthropy activities; and (3) its engagement in public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building. It provides recommendations and a set of six strategies that companies can apply to protect and/or build both market value and social value.