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Christian Seelos, director of the platform for strategy and and sustainability at IESE business school, is winner of an essay competition sponsored by the Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation on the private sector’s role in development. This is his essay: Abstract Recent research on business models that target the ?Bottom of the Pyramid’ (BOP), the vast untapped potential market made up of the world’s poorest peo...
Company Lessons in Reaching the World?s PoorestNews
No s?lo el cart?n y el papel son reciclables. Eso lo saben bien los cartoneros, que acceden a la telefon?a celular a trav?s de aparatos reciclados con una financiaci?n especial que les permite usar un servicio que de otro modo les resultar?a inaccesible. Ellos son parte del 70% de la poblaci?n de Am?rica Latina que gana menos de u$s3.000 por a?o, es decir no m?s de u$s8,2 por d?a, pero que a?n as? son consumidores activos y esperan acceder a bienes y servicios como cualquier otro se...
Como Hacer Buenos Negocios con Consumidores con Bajos RecursosNews
The price of food is soaring. The threat of hunger and malnutrition is growing. Millions of the world’s most vulnerable people are at risk. An effective and urgent response is needed. The first of the Millennium Development Goals, set by world leaders at the U.N. summit in 2000, aims to reduce the proportion of hungry people by half by 201...
The New Face Of HungerBlog Post
I ran across this Fair and Lovely ad on YouTube recently. For those who don’t know, this product is a skin-lightening cream that was at the center of a debate last year over the value and impact of a BoP approach to poverty alleviation. The ad is in Hindi, but the message is clear:...
Ethics in the BoP MarketplaceNews
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation???microfinance???involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries. It has been around since the nineteen-seventies, but in the past few years it has seized the imaginations of economists, activists, and bankers alike. The U.N. declared 2005 th...
What Microloans MissNews
This year must be devoted to helping the bottom billion of the world’s poorest to tap into global economic growth, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today. In a globalizing world, we require an international economic environment that fosters development, Mr. Ban said to UNCTAD’s Executive Committee, which is gearing up for ...
Globalization Must Benefit Bottom Billion Of PoorBlog Post
The?article that appeared in The Washington Post last Sunday titled “Our Cells, Ourselves” talks extensively about the growth of cell phone technology. According to that article, we have on a global scale reached yet another tipping point. As Malcolm Gladwell might say, the cell...
The Cell Phone: Building a Global Community One Ring at a TimeBlog Post
In the several days since the news that Yunus’ microfinance movement would be coming to the U.S., I’ve had some time to consider what this says about how we treat the BoP institutionally. To me, the fact that Yunus’ forays in NYC are seen as so newsworthy illustrates the “us...
What About U.S.?
