There has been growing interest lately in the use of market-based solutions to help alleviate poverty across the globe, especially as a result of the successes of the Acumen Fund. Although these kinds of solutions are no panacea, they have opened many opportunities for poverty relief and economic self reliance development that previous approaches (such [...]
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Microfanchising and Economic Self-Reliance
Where does microfranchising fit in with other methods of poverty alleviation? Stephen W. Gibson, creator of the Academy for Creating Enterprise, has developed the ‘Spectrum of Economic Self-Reliance Development,’ which categorizes and identifies different means of poverty alleviation. This spectrum helps us answer the above question about microfranchising, and it is from this spectrum [...]
The Problem Of Poverty
This first series of articles will seek to outline how the unique solution of microfranchising can be applied to eradicate poverty by building business sustainability and economic self-reliance. We will begin examining briefly the problem of poverty that microfranchising seeks to overcome.
The Problem of Poverty
The global problem of poverty is one of such scale and [...]
