Around the turn of the millennium it had become painfully evident that development aid, charity or "global business-as-usual" were not going to be the mechanisms to alleviate global poverty. This book takes a bottom-up human-centred approach and examines examples that engage the poor in BoP...

Poverty alleviation is arguably the most burning social sustainability problem globally, and business innovation for market-based means of poverty alleviation has proliferated in recent years. The so called base of the pyramid (BOP) and inclusive market streams of research emphasise that such...

The past decade has seen a proliferation of suggestions for market-based solutions to global poverty. While research emphasizes that sustainability innovation aimed at poverty alleviation must be grounded in user needs, few studies demonstrate how to study the poor for purposes of early phase...

Poverty seems to be affecting the majority of the world’s people and nations. It seriously undermines their capacity to meet their own needs including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water and altogether influences their quality of life. Poverty deprives also other aspects such as...