Excerpt
The concept that sustained economic growth is central to poverty alleviation in developing countries is gaining currency among development practitioners, policy makers, and business leaders. Although pains must be taken to ensure that such growth includes all sectors of society, a market-oriented approach to international development has been emerging for the last decade.' Increasingly, this market orientation is focusing on the private sector as a driver of opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial innovation as well as producrs and services. Three recent publications delineate the emerging model of the private sector's development role: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone (World Bank: World Development Report 2005), Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor (UN Commission on the Private Sector and Development, 2004) and C.K. Prahalad's recent book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid· Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing, 2005).
Citations
Bekefi, Tamara. "Viet Nam: Lessons in Building Linkages for Competitive and Responsible Entrepreneurship." Research Report No. 10. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, 2006.