Papers presented at A Conference on Global Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches held at Harvard University, on Dec. 1-3, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-415) and index.

Microcredit, segmentation, and poverty alleviation strategy for women : who are the customers? / Fauzia Erfan Ahmed -- Understanding consumers and retailers at the base of the pyramid in Latin America / Guillermo D'Andrea, Gustavo Herrero -- Marketing programs to reach India's underserved / Kunal Sinha ... [et al.] -- Brcko and the Arizona market / Bruce R. Scott -- Health services for the poor in developing countries : private vs. public vs. private and public / David E. Bloom, Tarun Khanna -- Fighting AIDS, fighting poverty : customer-centric marketing in the generic antiretroviral business / Rohit Deshpande,́ Zoe ̈Chance -- Meeting unmet needs at the base of the pyramid : mobile health care for India's poor / Pablo Sańchez, Miguel A. Rodriǵuez, Joan E. Ricart -- Energizing the base of the pyramid : scaling up successful business models to achieve universal electrification / David J. Jhirad, Annie Woollam -- Utilities and the poor : a story from Colombia / Carlos Rufiń, Luis Fernando Arboleda -- Bringing natural gas service to poor areas : the case of Buenos Aires's Moreno District / Marcelo Paladino, Lisandro Blas -- Multiahorro : barrio store / Wilson A. Jaćome, Luis E. Loriá, Luis Reyes Portocarrero -- Photography and the low-income classes in Brazil : a case study of Kodak / Melchior Dikkers, Paulo Cesar Motta -- The complex business of serving the poor : insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India / V. Kasturi Rangan, Dalip Sehgal, Rohithari Rajan -- Patrimonio hoy : a groundbreaking corporate program to alleviate Mexico's housing crisis / Arthur I. Segel, Nadeem Meghji, Regina Garciá-Cueĺlar -- Creating strong businesses by developing and leveraging the productive capacity of the poor / Kapil Marwaha ... [et al.] -- ITC's e-Choupal : a platform strategy for rural transformation / Ravi Anupindi, S. Sivakumar -- Nestle'́s milk district model : economic development for a value-added food chain and improved nutrition / Ray A. Goldberg, Kerry Herman -- Building new business value chains with low-income sectors in Latin America / James E. Austin ... [et al.] -- Viable business models to serve low-income customers : lessons from the Philippines / Gerardo C. Ablaza Jr. ... [et al.] -- When giants discover the disadvantaged : managerial challenges and success factors in building capacity to served underserved markets / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- The role of financial institutions in revitalizing low-income neighborhoods / Carolyn Welch, Ann Scoffier -- Houses for the poor and new business for banks : creating a market for affordable housing / Doug Guthrie, Michael McQuarrie -- The South African financial sector charter : a supplementary market framework to achieve affirmative action / R.S. Tucker, Thomas S. Mondschean, Bruce R. Scott -- How social entrepreneurs enable human, social, and economic development / Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair -- Hybrid value chains : social innovations and development of the small farmer irrigation market in Mexico / Valeria Budinich, Kimberly Manno Reott, Steṕhanie Schmidt -- Entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation in South Africa / Frederick Ahwireng-Obeng, Mthuli Ncube -- A gentler capitalism : black business leadership in the new South Africa / Linda A. Hill, Maria Farkas -- Microfinance : business, profitability, and creation of social value / Michael Chu -- Alleviating global poverty through microfinance : factors and measures of financial, economic, and social performance / Marc J. Epstein, Christopher A. Crane -- Strong double-bottom-line banking / David J. Porteous -- H & R Block's refund anticipation loans : perilous profits at the bottom of the pyramid? / David T. Rose, Daniel Schneider, Peter Tufano -- When is doing business with the poor good for the poor? : a household and national income accounting approach / Herman B. Leonard.