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This report presents findings from a quantitative market research study which investigated the lighting products market in Tanzania, covering two market segments (households and retail businesses) in both urban and rural areas. It includes consumer feedback on pricing, design attributes, product preferences and power generations needs.

This report presents findings from a quantitative market research study which investigated the lighting products market in Kenya, covering two market segments (households and retail businesses) in both urban and rural areas. It includes consumer feedback on pricing, design attributes, product preferences and power generations needs.

This report outlines the World Economic Forum's Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger’s work in Kenya and its implications for the role of business in bringing about a 'Green Revolution' for Africa. It elaborates on key lessons learned from the Alliance and it highlights a set of business models that strengthen food value chains.

This report presents findings from a quantitative market research study which investigated the lighting products market in Ethiopia, covering two market segments (households and retail businesses) in both urban and rural areas. It includes consumer feedback on pricing, design attributes, product preferences and power generations needs.

This report presents findings from a quantitative market research study which investigated the lighting products market in Zambia, covering two market segments (households and retail businesses) in both urban and rural areas. It includes consumer feedback on pricing, design attributes, product preferences and power generations needs.

This manual provides step-by-step guidance on how to create competitive small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that can be integrated into the supply chains of large companies, using a technical and business skills mentoring approach. It highlights the key success factors and challenges involved in developing local SMEs in a post-conflict and/or poor country.

This report examines how one type of Japanese private sector development support, the one-village one-product (OVOP) approach, fits with other donor approaches and how it relates to the development of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). It discusses the origin and academic context of OVOP; it reviews issues in the evaluation of the OVOP approach; and it includes a brief assessment of OVOP in Malawi.

This case study assesses Unilever's socio-economic footprint in South Africa; it reviews the company's impact on the growth, development, society and environment in the country. It outlines that the company's direct impacts are those felt by its 3,000 suppliers and their 20,000 employees due to the company’s purchases of goods and services from them; and its indirect impacts include those felt by its suppliers’ suppliers owing to the orders they receive.

This study examines the factors that influence small scale plantain farmers’ decisions to adopt productivity-enhancing technology in Ghana, using agrochemicals as an example.

The purpose of this report is to better understand the interaction between social partners – specifically trade unions – and the development of the financial system in South Africa, which consists of access to financial services, costs related to this access and the ensuing risks of household over-indebtedness.