Business as a development agent: evidence of possibility and improbability

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-42

  Blowfield, Michael ^a   Dolan, Catherine S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bottom billion capitalism; bottom of the pyramid; business; legibility; market based development; poverty reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893956421     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.868982     Document Type: Article

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