Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps

Roughly a little under half of the world's population is mired in poverty, most in the developing world--about 3 billion people constitute the global base of the economic pyramid. Building on earlier work by Banerjee and Duflo (2007), this paper uses survey data from three countries in order to...

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Main Authors:	Acosta, Pablo, Kim, Namsuk, Melzer, Illana, Mendoza, Ronald U., Thelen, Nina
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4737

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spelling	okr-10986-47372021-04-23T14:02:19Z Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps Acosta, Pablo Kim, Namsuk Melzer, Illana Mendoza, Ronald U. Thelen, Nina Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230 Roughly a little under half of the world's population is mired in poverty, most in the developing world--about 3 billion people constitute the global base of the economic pyramid. Building on earlier work by Banerjee and Duflo (2007), this paper uses survey data from three countries in order to provide a clear visualization of the spatial dimension of the economic lives of the poor and their access to markets. It develops a framework that could be used to map market inclusiveness, and then applies this to a number of markets that are critical to reducing poverty and increasing human welfare: water, credit and telecommunications. These "market heat maps" help to illustrate the extent of the challenges and in some cases reveal potential opportunities in growing more inclusive markets for the poor. 2012-03-30T07:29:29Z 2012-03-30T07:29:29Z 2011 Journal Article Journal of World Business 10909516 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4737 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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spellingShingle	Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230 Acosta, Pablo Kim, Namsuk Melzer, Illana Mendoza, Ronald U. Thelen, Nina Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps
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description	Roughly a little under half of the world's population is mired in poverty, most in the developing world--about 3 billion people constitute the global base of the economic pyramid. Building on earlier work by Banerjee and Duflo (2007), this paper uses survey data from three countries in order to provide a clear visualization of the spatial dimension of the economic lives of the poor and their access to markets. It develops a framework that could be used to map market inclusiveness, and then applies this to a number of markets that are critical to reducing poverty and increasing human welfare: water, credit and telecommunications. These "market heat maps" help to illustrate the extent of the challenges and in some cases reveal potential opportunities in growing more inclusive markets for the poor.
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author	Acosta, Pablo Kim, Namsuk Melzer, Illana Mendoza, Ronald U. Thelen, Nina
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title	Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps
title_short	Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps
title_full	Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps
title_fullStr	Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps
title_full_unstemmed	Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps
title_sort	business and human development in the base of the pyramid: exploring challenges and opportunities with market heat maps
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Business and Human Development in the Base of the Pyramid: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with Market Heat Maps

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