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Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy

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  • © 2008

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There is a growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty. How the for-profit model can be harnessed to provide the poor with a share in the world's prosperity is discussed through actual cases, and nested in innovative theories of business, social sciences, and philosophy.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: A Variety of Approaches to Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy

    • Charles Wankel
    Pages 1-4

  3. The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy

    • Scott Kelley, Patricia H. Werhane, Laura P. Hartman
    Pages 5-32

  4. Innovative Business Approaches and Poverty: Toward a First Evaluation

    • Emmanuel Raufflet, Alain Berranger, Alam Aguilar-Platas
    Pages 33-59

  5. Information and Communication Technology for Poverty Alleviation through Education and Healthcare—The India Experience

    • Nilay M. Yajnik
    Pages 61-72

  6. A Collaborative-Systemic Strategy Addressing the Dynamics of Poverty in Guatemala: Converting Seeming Impossibilities into Strategic Probabilities

    • James L. Ritchie-Dunham
    Pages 73-98

  7. In Search of Sustainable Social Mission Ventures to Alleviate Poverty

    • Shelby McIntyre, Albert Bruno, Patrick Guerra
    Pages 99-121

  8. Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul?

    • Mine Eder, Özlem Öz
    Pages 123-148

  9. Alleviating Poverty Using Microfranchising Models: Case Studies and a Critique

    • Lisa Jones Christensen
    Pages 149-170

  10. Using Business to Create a More Vibrant Craft Sector

    • Jan Hack Katz
    Pages 171-190

  11. Doing Well by Doing Good—Strategizing for the Bottom of the Pyramid in India

    • Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan
    Pages 191-207

  12. Marketing in Subsistence Marketplaces

    • Madhu Viswanathan, Srinivas Sridharan, Robin Ritchie
    Pages 209-231

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-246
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CHARLES WANKEL is Associate Professor of Management, St. John's University, USA.

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