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The aim of this report is to identify how commercial businesses can generate employment opportunities in rural areas through inclusive business models.

This report addresses the opportunity for the private sector to play a role in developing digital payment systems. It highlights various sectors where these opportunities are largely untapped and where global companies can leverage their networks to help bring consumers into the digital economy.

This case study showcases alcoholic beverages company, SABMiller, which joined the Business Call to Action with an initiative to develop and improve local supply chains for barley, a key ingredient for the company’s products, in Rajasthan, India. It outlines the company's goals which include establishing centres throughout key barley-growing regions to provide farmers with certified seeds, agricultural skills training, and technical assistance; and it outlines how the business model works; the business and development impacts to date; and the key success factors.

Este libro desarrolla ampliamente la relación entre los mercados y los pobres a través de la presentación de 33 iniciativas, de empresas de todo tamaño y de emprendedores sociales que realizan negocios para servir a los sectores de bajos ingresos en Iberoamérica. Los casos analizados incluyen distintos roles de las comunidades de bajos ingresos (productores, distribuidores, clientes, líderes del negocio) y corresponden a experiencias servicios públicos, reciclaje y agricultura.

This report illustrates how domestic and global companies in the food and drinks sector can deliver value for their business so that smallholder suppliers gain value too. It incorporates programme experience and case studies and shows the advantages - both in productivity and consumer appeal – of domestic and global companies connecting with smallholder suppliers.

This report discusses four years of the WBCSD-SNV alliance's progress on implementing inclusive business ventures in ten countries within Latin America. The report highlights 11 case examples and three areas of work: raising awareness about inclusive business models, brokering of new opportunities and advocating for the improvement of framework conditions.

Este reporte ofrece un amplio análisis del panorama de Colombia con respecto a los negocios inclusivos; presenta una mirada a las dinámicas empresariales del país y a las restricciones de mercado a las que se enfrentan los negocios inclusivos en Colombia. Presenta 13 casos de distintos sectores, analizando su matriz de intercambio de valor y sus estrategias de crecimiento.

This report focuses on key issue areas that need to be addressed to move the field of inclusive business forward. 14 different cases of companies which operate in a range of different countries and industry sectors are analysed and a first look provides a preliminary analysis of the drivers, results, and key elements these inclusive business models share.

This report explores the National Beverage Company (NBC), the local Coca-Cola bottler in the West Bank and Gaza. It discusses the company's experience in contributing to the local economy by generating local investment and income, creating jobs and investing in human capital, producing safe and affordable products, supporting local small enterprise development, implementing international business standards and technology, and sustaining operations in a conflict-affected area.

This report points out five core challenges that companies face when implementing inclusive business models and shows exemplary solutions for these by using experiences from companies which are already active in Inclusive business. Besides it presents case studies of 14 companies with different inclusive business models in different regions of the world.