Introduction: Farewell to pyramids: How can business and technology help to eradicate poverty?

Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-27

  Kandachar, Prabhu ^a   Halme, Minna ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

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EID: 85076080780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781351279888-1     Document Type: Editorial

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