Corridors for Shared Prosperity : Intra South-Asia Replication of Inclusive Business Models
This research study identified replication opportunities and white spaces across focus sectors of agriculture, healthcare, and renewable energy. These include short-term opportunities in trade, technology transfer, and strategic alliances to cater...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, New Delhi
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/916171481524153749/Corridors-for-shared-prosperity-intra-South-Asia-replication-of-inclusive-business-models http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25792 |
| Summary: | This research study identified
replication opportunities and white spaces across focus
sectors of agriculture, healthcare, and renewable energy.
These include short-term opportunities in trade, technology
transfer, and strategic alliances to cater to immediate
demand for products such as solar home systems and services
such as healthcare for non-communicable diseases.
Long-termopportunities include addressing demand that arises
from changing socio-economic scenarios and improving market
efficiencies, such as organic farming and domestic
manufacture of solar industry components. While increasing
cooperation among South Asian countries might present
different trends in the future, most current replication
activities are focused on India-Bangladesh replication in
the sectors of agriculture and healthcare. Finally, the
study also recommends a way forward for scaling the
intra-South Asia replication of inclusive businesses with
the involvement of stakeholders such as donors, investors,
incubators, advisors, academia, and policy makers. Given the
inherent challenges in replication and nascent state of
inclusive business ecosystems in most countries, their early
catalytic involvement is crucial. Specific action steps are
proposed for each category of stakeholder, but from past
evidence of ‘what works’ in building supporting ecosystems
for inclusive businesses, these organizations will be most
effective when they work together to draw out opportunities
for replication and address the key hurdles of doing
business in developing countries. |
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