Enhancing Value through Inclusive Business Strategies

Featured In CSR Research Digest - January 2012 Summary The report highlights the Business Call to Action’s hosted workshop in New York City on the topic of creating scalable inclusive business models. The event attracted over 80 senior executives from small, medium, and multinational enterprises as well as high-level representatives from donor and international organizations and academia that were in town for the United Nations General Assembly. Key Findings Inclusive business offers the potential for development impact along with commercial success by integrating the poor into corporate value chains as producers, suppliers, distributors, consumers, and employees. The following themes were discussed at the event: understanding the needs of low-income communities; understanding what works and what doesn’t; catalyzing new sources of finance; and collective action. Author(s) Business Call to Action Source PDF report

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