Poverty Alleviation through Partnerships: A Road Less Travelled for Business, Governments, and Entrepreneurs

Craig VanSandt () and Mukesh Sud ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2012, vol. 110, issue 3, 332 pages

Abstract: While investigating the role of business and accepting that profitable partnerships are the primary solution for poverty alleviation, we voice certain concerns that we hope will extend the authors’ discourse in Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships. We present a model that we believe can serve as an effective framework for addressing these issues. We then establish the imperative of inclusive growth. Here, we engage with the necessity of formulating strategies that focus on the pace and, importantly, the pattern of economic growth, including its social and cultural dimensions. We also deliberate on the parameters of inclusive growth with the overriding objective of ensuring that multiple strata of society share the benefits of globalization. Turning to the critical role of institutions in promoting social welfare, we explore the impact of government policy vis-à-vis the leverage enjoyed by other social institutions. Despite the reality that state and private interests often operate at cross purposes, we argue that government must still be an integral part of the solution matrix. With direction from other social institutions, entrepreneurial forces can be unleashed to tackle endemic poverty prevalent in the base of the pyramid. We then provide an in-depth case study in which the availability of telecommunications in rural areas was utilized as a means to foster development and ensure inclusive growth. The conclusion examines lessons learned while operationalizing the model, and spells out the impact of our enablers at ground level. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

Keywords: Base of the pyramid; Collaborative entrepreneurship; Inclusive growth; Poverty alleviation; Profitable partnerships; Social institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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