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This paper uses survey data from six countries to view the economic lives of the poor, specifically their access to markets. It develops a framework that could be used to map market inclusiveness, and then applies this to a number of markets that are critical to reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This book, through vivid stories, identifies the highly unconventional entrepreneurs that are solving some of the world's most pressing economic, social, and environmental problems. It describes how these pioneers are disrupting existing industries, value chains, and business models--and in the process creating fast-growing markets around the world.

This report summarizes the findings of the third Business Linkages Series event, held in Rio de Janeiro in 2008. where public and private business linkage practitioners discussed supply, distribution, and sales models that foster entrepreneurship and enterprise development among the BoP. The report points out opportunities to enable access to BoP markets and challenges in the forming of business linkages as well as corresponding patterns of solutions and cross-cutting themes using practical company examples.

This report discusses two aspects: 'promoting local content as a policy objective' and 'the practical steps to promote local content in infrastructure projects'. It aims to show policy-makers that expanding the local content of infrastructure projects is an achievable objective with real long-term benefits.

This report documents the 'Inclusive Business in Agrifood Markets conference' which aimed to assess how modernisation of the food system can include and benefit small-scale farmers. It focused on understanding if new food giants could be partners in the economic growth of rural areas; if small-scale farmers could meet the high expectations for food quantity, quality and safety; and if policy could help to make successful market linkages between business and small-scale farming.

This report identifies eight factors that are critical to the success of social and environmental enterprises. It provides assistance to the SEED initiative by outlining the factors that can be used to identify potential award winners and used to establish a baseline for performance of new winners.

This paper explores the possibility of aligning the goals of poverty reduction and economic profit through the market based approach of the Base of the Pyramid. It shows business examples and new market opportunities.

This book outlines the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact. It offers a wide-ranging selection of work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners; and it clarifies some of the ambiguity around the term social entrepreneurship, establishing a clear set of frameworks with which to understand it.

This paper served as a guide for a working group at the Fourth Session of the World Urban Forum held in Nanjing in November 2008. The working group addressed themes of Urban Governance and Bottom of the Pyramid Approaches for Urban Sustainability. It provides background information about Prahalad's base of the pyramid concept and ist relating approaches. It furthermore outlines implications of the BoP approach for the private sector.

This second edition of the BoP Protocol provides a succinct guide to how to co-create BoP enterprises on the ground with local community members engaged as partners and colleagues rather than just consumers or producers.