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The report provides an overview of the role of public private partnerships in social inclusion activities implemented by the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development. It provides diverse figures and presents some partnerships and company-based approaches.

This report examines how social innovation occurs in NGOs, the public sector, movements, networks and markets. It presents an analysis of the history, the theory and the process, paving a way for social innovation to play an increasingly significant role in society.

This report summarises some of the key points and follow-up actions that emerged from a leadership dialogue at Harvard University. Discussions include what economic opportunity is; how companies can play a role; and how collaboration can take place.

This paper deals with value chain promotion as an approach for promoting regional development. It examines the field of value chain promotion, illustrates the process of analysing a value chain including the mapping fo the whole ecosystem . It also provides guidelines on how to strengthen current and new services for operators to improve value chain efficiency. Nine practical cases from different countries are also part of this reader.

Este artículo aborda mitos que existen alrededor del mercado de bajos ingresos, y explora el concepto de acción social empresarial como un mecanismo para la creación de valor compartido, el cual ejemplifica a través de la revisión del caso de la empresa colombiana de servicios públicos CODENSA.

This article tests the hypothesis that there are common challenges and approaches in serving low-income customers in developing markets, and that these can be articulated and refined to get better business results. It is based on research on serving customers at the bottom of the economic pyramid in industries such as fast-moving consumer goods (fmcg), financial services, telecommunications, construction, health care and home appliances.

This case study presents a business model of Barclays Bank that connects modern finance with Susu collection in Ghana. It examines how the Barclays Ghana initiative augments the Susu collection scheme and shows some of the key challenges associated with scaling up such an initiative.

This article argues that the 'BOP proposition' (pioneered by C.K. Prahalad and his book 'Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits') is both logically flawed and inconsistent with the evidence. It suggests that rather than viewing the poor primarily as consumers, an alternative approach is to focus on the poor as producers and to emphasize buying from the poor as the only way to alleviate poverty is to raise the real income of the poor.

This report discusses the need for an energy efficient economy that also delivers affordable energy solutions for those who are currently without basic energy services. It explores how governments and business can work together to solve these challenges by aligning policies, mechanisms and tools with the commercial conditions under which a business typically invests, in order to scale up private investment.

This report explores four strategies that large companies can use to expand economic opportunity. It identifies five themes requiring action by the business and development communities: 'inclusive business models as “strategic cornerstones” for expanding economic opportunity', 'the role of complementary strategies in enhancing the commercial viability and development impact of inclusive business models', 'the applicability of commercial, social, and hybrid funding models', 'the importance of collaborative action in achieving systemic impact and scale', 'and the public leadership opportunity for large firms and their executives'.