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Governmentality at the Base-of-the-Pyramid

Journal of Macromarketing, 2011
The Base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) corporate strategy perceives market-based solutions to the problem of global poverty. The strategy is premised on the view that people in BoP markets live in fundamental lack, which can be overcome with business intervention.
Samuel K Bonsu, Pia Polsa
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Cocreation at the Base of the Pyramid

Organization and Environment, 2016
The base of the pyramid (BOP) approach suggests that business with low-income consumers or producers can simultaneously foster well-being, environmental sustainability, and profits. A central tenet of the BOP approach is cocreation between companies, low-income communities, and other actors.
exaly   +3 more sources

Microfinance and entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2021
Abstract Research Summary There continues to be substantial debate on whether and how providing inclusive access to finance through microcredit promotes entrepreneurship‐led development at the base of the pyramid.
Jasjit Singh, Pushan Dutt, Arzi Adbi
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Designing for the Base of the Pyramid

Design Management Review, 2004
For companies in the developed world, design, if not the norm, is at least an option for enhancing business strategies. Going beyond these traditional venues, Patrick Whitney and Anjali Kelkar boldly explore the contributions design can make to businesses in developing countries, specifically businesses in the slums of India.
Patrick Whitney, Anjali Kelkar
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Working at the Base of the Pyramid

2013
Despite efforts to the contrary, global poverty is still an issue, because almost two billion people still live in abject poverty, and another two billion live on the economic margins of survivability, even by local standards. This chapter describes three efforts to change these statistics: the work of Hindustan Lever in India to provide affordable ...
Pauline J. Albert, Patricia Werhane, Tim Rolph   +2 more
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Microfranchising and the Base of the Pyramid

2007
This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to do so (e.g. microcredit). It then introduces the concept of the microfranchise and discusses how this business model can be used in poverty alleviation.
Molly Hoyt, Eliot Jamison
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Pyramid based depth from focus

Proceedings CVPR '88: The Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003
A method is presented for depth recovery through the analysis of scene sharpness across changing focus position. Modeling a defocused image as the application of a low pass-filter on a properly focused image of the same scene, the authors can compare the high spatial frequency content of regions in each image and determine the correct focus position ...
Trevor Darrell, Kwangyoen Wohn
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Pyramid-based texture analysis/synthesis

Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '95, 1995
This paper describes a method for synthesizing images that match the texture appearance of a given digitized sample. This synthesis is completely automatic and requires only the "target" texture as input. It allows generation of as much texture as desired so that any object can be covered.
David J. Heeger, James R. Bergen
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