Presentations from the Ashoka Panel at the World Urban Forum (June 2006)

• Conference Paper: Housing the Poor - Engaging the Private and Citizen Sectors: Social Innovations and "Hybrid Value Chains"
  
• Ashoka Presentation
• Presentation of Saiban's Incremental Scheme
• Presentation of the Capital Markets for the Marginalized
  

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Social Innovations

• A Framework for Developing Market-Based Strategies that Benefit Low-Income Communities
• Compassionate capitalism: Aurolab does Business with the Poor
• Making the Sun Shine for All
• Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Program: A Multi Media Case Study
• Changemakers article: Business-Social Ventures: Reaching for Major Impact

Business Innovations and the "Base of the Pyramid"

• Enabling the Poor to Build Housing Combining Profit and Social Development
• C.K. Prahalad: Selling to the World's Poor - Foreign Policy - May 2004
• "Bottom of the Pyramid" case studies from Kenan Flagler Business School
• Pascal Zachary - Poor Idea (a critical perspective on the concept of the Bottom of the Pyramid)

Tools & Other Links

• Next Billion
  
• Steps for Developing a Non-Profit Strategic Business Plan
• Doing Business with the Poor — A Field Guide
• Partnering tool book (UNDP) in Spanish and English

About Classes of Small Producers™

• A Lesson of Survival and Sustainability from Brazilian Semi-Arid Lands, Ana Lima
• Revolution in a Coffee Cup: Waking the Sleeping Consumer Giant, Kris Herbst
• Shanty Town Seamstresses Fuel the Fashion Industry, by Shannon Walbran • [Versión en español]
• Changing Markets: From the Coffee-Grounds Up, by Talli Nauman
• The Future is Calling: Building Rural Co-ops in Poland, Steve Owad
• Sustainability and Environmental Awareness: Keeping Farmers on their Farms in Poland, John Babb
• Establishing Sustainable Rural Economies: Developing from Natural Origins, Janet Jarman
• Herbal Remedies for Social Wellbeing, by Jennifer Gampell
• A New Look for Brazilian Workers' Cooperatives, Shannon Walbran
• A Raindrop Cleans the Wetlands, Susan Cunningham
• Adopting Globalization to Local Social Development and Ecology, Talli Nauman
• Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide in Poland, Steve Owad

About Wealth of the Poor™

• Beating Doubts, Droughts & Debt: Re-shaping the Economic Landscape, by Shannon Walbran • [Versión en español]
• Balancing Sustainability with Service to the Poorest of the Poor, Sharda Naidoo
• You Can Bank on It: Women are Doin' It for Themselves, by Pritha Sen
• Creating a Whole Community, Kris Herbst
• About Hernando de Soto's perspective in the "Mystery of Capital"