Emerging Markets Emerging Models
THIS REPORT INVESTIGATES “MARKET-BASED SOLUTIONS” as a means to help those residing at the base of the global income pyramid. An alternative and complement to traditional government expenditures, aid, and philanthropy, market-based solutions give low-income people better access to socially beneficial products and services that genuinely and directly improve the quality of their lives and livelihoods. In India, for example, such solutions provide or enable:
• Clean drinking water at one-fourth the cost of the least expensive alternative.
• As much as a 125 percent increase in incomes for small farmers.
• Private education in urban slums that significantly outperforms the best government schools for about $3 per month.
• Safe, doctor-attended births for a total cost of $40—less than one-fourth the cost in traditional private hospitals.
