Commercial and Inclusive Value Chains: Doing good and doing well - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853398683 ISBN 13: 9781853398681

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

In spite of the current wave of globalization, the majority of the world’s people remain poor, excluded from economic development. This book shows that disadvantaged smallholders and other poor people can be included in modern integrated value chains, which are profitable for them, for the value chain leaders, and for all the other processors and traders involved. And, that this can be done without subsidy, without donor or government aid, and without appeal to "corporate social responsibility"; it is simple good business.

Commercial and Inclusive Value Chains includes case studies on 15 profitable and inclusive value chains from different countries in Western, Eastern and North Eastern Africa, and from India, Cambodia, Peru. The goods which they handle include food stuffs and other products that are transformed through a value chain. Each case includes a detailed "map" of the value chain, showing how much value is added at each stage, as well as the results of surveys to assess the benefit to the small producers or other disadvantaged group who are members of the chains.

This book is important reading for managers and consultants who work in value chain development, staff of NGOs and donor agencies, and researchers and post-graduate students in business schools and in departments of economics and development studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Malcolm Harper is an emeritus professor of Cranfield University; he is an independent researcher, writer and teacher who works mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfinance credit rating agency and business development, and author of numerous books and articles. He is the co-editor of What's Wrong with Microfinance? (Practical Action, 2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1853398683
• ISBN 13: 9781853398681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Harper Malcolm, Belt John, Roy Rajeev