MicroFranchising

Edited by Jason Fairbourne, Stephen W. Gibson and W. Gibb Dyer

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Abstract: This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to do so (e.g. microcredit). It then introduces the concept of the microfranchise and discusses how this business model can be used in poverty alleviation. Different models of microfranchising are reviewed and specific case studies highlighted to show how it has worked in different parts of the world. The book concludes with a discussion of the advantages as well as the potential problems and pitfalls that accompany microfranchising.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781847201089
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Why Microfranchising is Needed Now: Introduction and Book Overview

Jason S. Fairbourne

Ch 2 Microfranchising: The Next Step on the Development Ladder

Stephen W. Gibson

Ch 3 The Informal Economy and Microfranchising

Michael Henriques and Matthias Herr

Ch 4 Current International Development Tools to Combat Poverty

Warner Woodworth

Ch 5 Opportunities for Partnership: How Microfinance and Microfranchising Complement Each Other

John Hatch

Ch 6 Microfranchising and the Base of the Pyramid

Molly Hoyt and Eliot Jamison

Ch 7 Microfranchise Business Models

Kirk Magleby

Ch 8 Honey Care Africa

Farouk Jiwa

Ch 9 Franchising Health Care for Kenya: The HealthStore Foundation Model

Michelle Fertig and Herc Tzaras

Ch 10 Vodacom Community Services: Rural Telephone Access for South Africa

Lisa Jones Christensen, Jennifer Van Kirk and Brad Wood

Ch 11 Scojo Foundation

Jordan Kassalow, Graham Macmillan and Neil Blumenthal

Ch 12 Microfranchise Funding

Naoko Felder-Kuzu

Ch 13 The Future of Microfranchising: Opportunities and Challenges

W. Gibb Dyer

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