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05 Feb 09

Ethical Corporation: Europe - Development – Turning on the finance tap

  • Danone and Unilever want the European commission, the European Union’s executive body, to consider how it could help business reach more consumers at the base of the pyramid, or the 3.1 billion people in the world living on less than $2.50 a day.

    Government finance could relieve companies of some of the start-up and running costs of innovative, low-cost businesses in poor countries. This would help business sell nutritional food, healthcare and hygiene products in the developing world.
11 Apr 08

Activity Database | NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise

The WRI Next Billion Activity Database tracks innovative enterprises and partnerships that offer products and services to underserved communities in developing countries.

www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule - Preview

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10 Dec 07

Barclays strategy to tap bottom of pyramid unlike peers

  • Sensing a huge potential in the mass segment, foreign banking major Barclays
    Bank will soon launch a banking product aimed at the unbanked and under-banked
    segment in the country.



    Unlike
    its other foreign peers which entered the Indian market by tapping high networth
    clients, Barclays, a late entrant, believes there is a fortune to be made at the
    bottom of the pyramid.
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