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Microfinance in Asia
Author: Knowledge@SMU
Product Type: Web Sites; Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@SMU
Publication Year: 2009
For many of the rural poor and socially-disadvantaged in developing countries, microfinancing is a key source of capital. With loans of just hundreds or even tens of dollars, this group, commonly known as “the under-banked”, has been able to jump-start small businesses of their own and achieve a certain level of economic success. As such, more lenders – both public and private – have been willing to accept the risks of working with this stratum of borrowers. However, with the global economy looking bleak and financial regulations tightening across the board, microfinancing activities have been sharply reduced.
Making Better Investments at the Base of the Pyramid
Author: London, Ted
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2009
Though they have feel-good stories and data on milestones, most ventures that serve the world's poor don't have a systematic way to gauge how well they're achieving their goals. To address that need, London, the director of the University of Michigan's Base of the Pyramid Initiative, has devised a new tool.
Is American Business Working for the Poor?
Authors: Bane, Mary Jo; Ellwood, David T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
Poverty is a business issue because the American poor are part of the American work force. Most poor adults and 90% of poor children live in families where work is the norm, not the exception. Companies cannot create the work force of the future with the poverty policies of the past.
Teaching Module on Low Wage Work - Teaching Questions and Additional References
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The teaching questions and additional references for the Low Wage Work Teaching Module.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Can Wage Laws Benefit All?
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Those interested in promoting higher wages for low-wage workers also look to government policies to provide support, including minimum and living wage laws and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Minimum wage laws, while no longer controversial in the U.S., may still become an issue when not applied to sub-classes of workers (illegal immigrants, youth, or some service workers).
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Business Prescriptions
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
What responsibility do companies have to their employees? And how can companies help their employees work more and more efficiently, benefitting both communities and corporations?
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Low Wage Costs and Benefits
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
A primary business concern must be long-term success and the perpetuation of profits, goals often dependent on gaining a competitive advantage. An on-going debate is whether low-wage labor presents just such an advantage to U.S. businesses.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Dead End or a Way Out?
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Most of us believe that full-time work should pay enough to avoid poverty, but this often isn't the case. While there is no one accepted definition of "low-wage work," there are an estimated 30 million Americans earning around the poverty line or below.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
This Teaching Module addresses key issues around low-wage work in the American economy. Its purpose is to introduce the theme of low-wage work and discuss competing sides of the issues it raises for managers, as well as provide examples of solutions businesses have used to address some of the challenges raised by low-wage work.
Agility
Authors: Tomasini, Rolando; Hanson, M.; Van Wassenhove, Luk
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009
In 2006 Kuwait-based Agility joined the ranks of the top ten global logistics providers worldwide.
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