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This report aims to help companies advance women’s economic empowerment in their operations and across their value chains in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on the economic, social, cultural, and political challenges facing women in the region and offers companies recommendations on how to promote women’s economic empowerment through their own actions and by enabling and influencing others.

The objective of this research report is to help practitioners understand what systems change means in the context of social entrepreneurship, how it is distinct from direct service or business-in-a-box models and, most importantly, what it looks like in practice. It focuses on concrete activities, processes, and leadership lessons. It also explains, how system theories can be applied across a range of circumstances.

This report provides a brief overview of investment opportunities in Rwanda.

In Ecuadorian cities in the mid-1990s pharmacies were plentiful, but they catered to middle and high-income customers, neglecting the urban poor. Against this backdrop, Corporación Grupo Fybeca S.A. (GPF), a pharmaceutical retailer, saw an opportunity to complement its high-end pharmacy chain, Fybeca, with a down market chain so that customers could access quality medicines at economical prices. In 2000, the retail company launched SanaSana — its first pharmacy for low-income customers.

This publication outlines how the SDGs offer a compelling growth strategy for African business, pointing to an economic prize of at least US$1.1 trillion by 2030 for the African private sector and the potential to create 85 million new jobs. The report highlights opportunities in four sectors: food and agriculture, energy, health and cities.

This report provides a brief overview of investment opportunities in Ethiopia.

The Earth Security Report 2017 provides a roadmap for global business to align their growth to the demands for social inclusion and environmental security that are defining the countries in which they operate, whilst navigating the risks and opportunities reflected in the wider Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda. The report reveals that the exposure and impact of global industries to issues such as unemployment and pollution is now happening on a global scale and proposes practical changes that companies can make to link their production and consumption footprint to the sustainable growth of countries.

This report explores the Manual Distribution Centers (MDC) model implemented by Coca-Cola Sabco, one of the Coca-Cola Company’s bottling partners, in Tanzania and Ethiopia. It examines two elements, how the MDC business model is structured and implemented and how the business model is contributing to expand economic opportunity and human capital development in the two countries.

This report aims to present the business case for sustainability for consumer industries. It provides findings from workshops with consumer industry executives and experts in sustainability, business strategy and product design.

This thesis reviews five elements needed by social enterprises working at the base of the pyramid in order to achieve scale and sustainability, drawing upon examples from the Philippine BOP retail market. It reviews and makes recommendations for BOP theory development and encourages further research into BOP consumer behaviour.