Johanna Mair, Ignasi Martí
Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegué
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital ci...
Johanna Mair, Ignasi Martí, Marc J. Ventresca
Much effort goes into building markets as a tool for economic and social development; those pursuing or promoting market building, however, often overlook that in too many places social exclusion and poverty prevent many, especially women, from participating in and accessing markets. Building on dat...
Yunus, Muhammad 1940-
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus looks more deeply into the concept of social business, an alternative to unfettered capitalism that channels the best energies of capitalism while addressing pressing human needs, by showing how the theory and practice of this idea is growing in the business, academic a...
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Laurel R Jackson
In this article we provide a critical analysis of the role of market-based approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries. In particular, we analyse the role of microfinance in poverty alleviation by conducting an ethnographic study of three villages in Bangladesh. Microfinance has become a...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Ilma Nur Chowdhury, Robert D. Klassen
Abstract For sustainability, research in operations and supply chain management historically emphasized the development of environmental rather than social capabilities. However, factory disasters in Bangladesh, an emerging market and the second largest clothing exporter in the world, revealed enorm...
Md. Aminul Islam, Mohammad Aktaruzzaman Khan, Abu Zafar Muhammad Obaidullah, Monjurul Alam
This study examines the effect of characteristics of entrepreneur and characteristics of the firm on the businesssuccess of Small and Medium Enterprises in Bangladesh. The study is based on survey methodology through aquestionnaire administered on the owners and employees of small firms. Data are an...
Milford Bateman, Ha‐Joon Chang
The contemporary model of microfinance has its roots in a small local experiment in Bangladesh in the early 1970s undertaken by Dr Muhammad Yunus, the US-educated Bangladeshi economist and future 2006 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient. Yunus’s idea of supporting tiny informal microenterprises and selfe...
David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
Management has a large effect on the productivity of medium and large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? We develop 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, ...
Imran Matin, David Hulme, Stuart Rutherford
Abstract This paper reviews the achievements of the ‘microfinance revolution’, through reference to the now extensive literature. It finds that there are many opportunities to improve and innovate. To illustrate this finding, the paper concentrates on examining what we need to know to design and del...
Shahriar Tanvir Alam, Sayem Ahmed, Syed Mithun Ali, Sudipa Sarker et al.
The COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the diverse challenges that supply chains face to significant disruptions. Vaccine supply chains are no exception. Therefore, it is elemental that challenges to the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain (VSC) are identified and prioritized to pave the way out of this p...
Val Curtis, Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Stephen P. Luby, Rocío Florez et al.
Although promotion of safe hygiene is the single most cost-effective means of preventing infectious disease, investment in hygiene is low both in the health and in the water and sanitation sectors. Evidence shows the benefit of improved hygiene, especially for improved handwashing and safe stool dis...
Md. Alam Hossain Mondal, Linda M. Kamp, Nevelina Pachova
Jelle Van Loon, Lennart Woltering, Timothy J. Krupnik, Frédéric Baudron et al.
There is great untapped potential for farm mechanization to support rural development initiatives in low- and middle-income countries. As technology transfer of large machinery from high-income countries was ineffective during the 1980s and 90s, mechanization options were developed appropriate to re...
Fara Azmat, Weng Marc Lim, Abdul Moyeen, Ranjit Voola et al.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a universal framework for addressing pressing global economic, environmental, and social challenges. Central to the SDG agenda is the vital role of business innovation in fostering positive change and promoting the triple bottom line of s...