The Bottom of the Pyramid Strategy for Reducing Poverty: A Failed Promise
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Keywords
Poverty reduction; bottom of pyramid; consumption choices; micro-entrepreneurs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MFD-2009-08-16 (Microfinance)
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