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This report documents an interview with Ruban Selvanayagam from Fez Tá Pronto Construction System in Brazil, a real estate development model that is focused on serving people at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) with affordable and high quality housing. It discusses the dysfunctional mainstream housing market dynamics, and the current practical challenges that face the scheme.

This report about a private sector mapping project takes a closer look at the current motives, strategies, incentives, obstacles, and benefits as perceived by firms to enter untapped majority markets. For this purpose, 521 interviews in thirteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) were conducted.

This paper extracts lessons learned in working with informal finance institutions. It is designed for practitioners working to address the gap between supply and demand in agricultural finance, and is intended to support efforts to unlock capital for smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs.

This report investigates how the Latin America and the Caribbean's market at the BOP has changed during recent years. It presents data on the BOP market size, socioeconomic characteristics, market segments, expenditure patterns, and demand-related factors, and it also provides insights into what the region's BOP consumers want and identifies underserved markets and business opportunities. It includes an examination of the supply side of BOP markets and analyses what types of business models, distribution channels, and input sources have enabled enterprises to successfully engage the Latin American and the Caribbean BOP market.

This case study gives advice to impact investors and investees on new and emerging methods to strengthen their impact measurement practices. The case tracks the WDI team as it pilot-tested a new impact measurement framework with three social enterprises in Nicaragua, Brazil and Peru. The case also provides recommendations to improve the impact measurement practices of investors, as well as the enterprises they support.

The Entrepreneurship Database Program collects information from entrepreneurs when they apply to accelerator programs. These entrepreneurs, both those selected and not selected, are then surveyed annually to gather valuable follow-up data. This report summarizes application data collected from ventures operating in Central America that applied to participating accelerator programs between 2013 and 2018.

This report summarizes application and follow-up data collected from ventures that applied to participating Entrepreneurship Database Program accelerators between 2013 and 2016. This report provides a first look at the short-term impacts of accelerator program participation on commercial performance. 

Este estudio presenta mejores prácticas implementadas por instituciones microfinancieras para pequeños productores agropecuarios productores de cadenas de valor no estructuradas y de subsistencia de América Latina. Esto con el objetivo de replicar y expandir.

Este informe presenta los resultados de la alianza AGEXPORT y la U.S. Agency for International Development en el empoderamiento económico de pequeñas y medianas empresas rurales de Guatemala a través de la generación de empleos, el encadenamiento productivo, acceso a mercados y generación de oferta productiva.

Este documento recopila 11 experiencias exitosas del sector rural pobre de Latinoamérica de acceso a mercados dinámicos. Detalla la situación inicial, el proceso, resultados y lecciones aprendidas de dichas experiencias.