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This report explores six interconnected challenges that are of particular concern for business as they further affect the integrity of ecosystems and their capacity to provide services: water scarcity, climate change, habitat change, biodiversity loss and invasive species, overexploitation of oceans, and nutrient overloading. It discusses their implications for businesses and provides examples of corporate responses.

This report reviews the potential for business to contribute to public health systems in developing countries - it outlines the challenges facing public health systems and why good health systems matter to business. It discusses the role of the private sector across three areas: core business activities, philanthropy and social investment, and public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building and it provides successful case examples and initiatives.

This report argues the case for tourism as an engine of pro-poor growth in Africa. It details the four arguments: (1) Tourism is significant for African economies; (2) Some of the benefits of tourism already reach the poor; (3) The prospects for African tourism look good; (4) Interventions to increase the pro-poor impact of tourism in Africa are tried and tested and ready for replication.

Este documento desarrolla las dinámicas de las cadenas productivas de arroz, lácteos, madera, cacao y cerdos en la región del atlántico norte de Nicaragua. Así mismo desarrolla propuestas para mejorar el acceso de los pequeños productores a mercados locales, nacionales e internacionales.

Este documento presenta un mapeo de la base de la pirámide en 20 países de Latinoamerica, considerando cuestiones de ingreso y gastos.

This report analyses the success of Kick Start's Money Maker Pump innovation and shows how important it is to provide enabling technologies which the poor can creatively adapt for their own purposes, rather than beginning with a narrow and clearly defined value proposition.

Esta publicación desarrolla una guía para la gestión de emprendimientos sociales, abarcando temas de liderazgo, estrategia, cultura organizacional, recursos humanos, finanzas, estructura, relación con organismos gubernamentales y medición de impacto.

This report suggests a conceptual framework on ways through which companies can support social entrepreneurship. It focuses on: (1) a company’s core business operations in the workplace, marketplace and along the value chain; (2) its social investment and strategic philanthropy activities; and (3) its engagement in public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building. It outlines the ‘business case’ on how alliances can help companies meet their business goals, and offers a set of recommendations for business leaders, social entrepreneurs, foundations and governments on how they can work together to increase the scale and effectiveness of these alliances for mutual benefit.

This report suggests a conceptual framework on the contribution of business to development - it focuses on three corporate ‘spheres of influence’: (1) a company’s core business operations in the workplace, marketplace and along the value chain; (2) its social investment and strategic philanthropy activities; and (3) its engagement in public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building. It provides recommendations and a set of six strategies that companies can apply to protect and/or build both market value and social value.

Looks at the necessary conditions in the optimization of donor operations for debt relief, notably additional resource generation and desirability of earmarking. Presents a tentative overview of the role of microfinance in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSPR) policies of 29 countries in Africa south of Sahara.