Reaching the Last Mile : Social Enterprise Business Models for Inclusive Development
Bringing essential services to the poor, whether in remote rural areas, provincial towns, or in the slums of megacities, is a great challenge for governments in developing countries. Lack of governmental capacity and fiscal resources at the nationa...
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Format: | Report |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/370641521094121368/Reaching-the-last-mile-social-enterprise-business-models-for-inclusive-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29544 |
Summary: | Bringing essential services to the poor,
whether in remote rural areas, provincial towns, or in the
slums of megacities, is a great challenge for governments in
developing countries. Lack of governmental capacity and
fiscal resources at the national and local levels prevents
effective public provision of water, power, education, and
health services to the poor. And private firms, which often
step in to serve the middle and upper classes, are dissuaded
by high risks and low affordability from providing these
services to the poor, or what is sometimes referred to as
“the last mile.” In contrast, social enterprises have been
able to provide basic goods and services to the poor. This
is the gap that the present book aims to fill. It catalogues
over 40 of the most effective market-based solutions for
service delivery to the poor brought about by social
enterprises. It tracks how stylized business models have
been developed to address development challenges. The
sectors covered are education, energy, health, waste, water,
sanitation, and finance. The book’s analysis employs and
greatly benefits from systematically applying a common
framework that helps explain the relevance and
implementation of the model for even general development practitioners. |
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