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Poverty reduction for profit? A critical examination of business opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid

The author examines C.K Prahalad's idea that selling to four billion poor people at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) generates both profits for big business and eliminates poverty. A welcome, innovative and influential perspective, but an opportunity missed, he argues.

Link http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/?doc=35007
Date 01-Nov-2007
Institute Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford
Tags poverty, business, eradicate, developing

See also

  1. On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
  2. Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries
  3. International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries
  4. Policy research on migration and development
  5. Poverty and reform of financial support to the poor

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