The United Nations Deu
business models that advance
globalised competition for ente
the impressive growth of recent
That the world's poor people
can spur growth and spark soc
Inclusive Markets initiative. Ir
less than eight dollars a day
even as producers when native
The
tele-medicine networks, identi
successful strategies that in
and business processes that un
products for the poor 7
netvori
providers to follow up on
the following passage carefully:
me's latest report on strategies to create value for all highlights viable
odels that advance overall human progress by including the poor While the findings reflect the imperative o
competition for enterprises, they are of particular relevance to the emerging economies of Asia where, dopo
essive growth of recent years, issues of equity and employment generation have been given the short shrit
world's poor people who live on less than two dollars a day and constitute nearly one-third of the population
growth and spark social change is the burden of the report commissioned under the UNDP's 2006 Growing
caring
Markets initiative. It argues that the four billion people living at the bottom of the income pyramid
bring value as consumers, employees, and
sight dollars a day and having a combined income of $5 trillion
raducers when native entrepreneurship is tapped and nurtured.
se studies documented in the report, including the Sulabh paid-sanitation systems and Narayana Hrudayalaya's
bisine networks, identify five common constraints that hinder business activity in the developing world and five
Bal strategies that integrate them into the value chain. Among the letter are pioneering adaptations of technology
ness processes that underpin many low-cost telecommunication, financial, healthcare and other services and
for the poor. Their impact on small and medium enterprises has been nothing less than revolutionary wireless
reduce dependence on physical infrastructure; smart cards do away with the need for banks and service
to follow up on payments: and biometrics help overcome inefficient regulation
these innovative adaptations of technologies and business models offer solutions to those the one billion who
access to clean drinking water and the 16 billion who are without electricity. These bottom-up approaches lend
red tape and bureaucratic apathy. India's massive strides in information
in the face of traditional impediments
mmunication technologies are not matched by a realisation of its full potential in several domestic sectors.
Drawing important
important lessons from the current report will go a 43 long way in securing equity and fair distribution of
ains of development and sustaining the current economic momentum
On the basis of your understanding of the above passage make notes on it, using headings and subheadings.
(5 Marks)
The recognisable abbreviations (wherever necessary - minimum four) and a format you consider suitable.
Also supply an appropriate title to it.
(5 Marks)
B. Write a summary of the passage in about 80-100 words.
Seace for Notes
Answers
The United Nations Deu
business models that advance
globalised competition for ente
the impressive growth of recent
That the world's poor people
can spur growth and spark soc
Inclusive Markets initiative. Ir
less than eight dollars a day
even as producers when native
The
tele-medicine networks, identi
successful strategies that in
and business processes that un
products for the poor 7
netvori
providers to follow up on
the following passage carefully:
me's latest report on strategies to create value for all highlights viable
odels that advance overall human progress by including the poor While the findings reflect the imperative o
competition for enterprises, they are of particular relevance to the emerging economies of Asia where, dopo
essive growth of recent years, issues of equity and employment generation have been given the short shrit
world's poor people who live on less than two dollars a day and constitute nearly one-third of the population
growth and spark social change is the burden of the report commissioned under the UNDP's 2006 Growing
caring
Markets initiative. It argues that the four billion people living at the bottom of the income pyramid
bring value as consumers, employees, and
sight dollars a day and having a combined income of $5 trillion
raducers when native entrepreneurship is tapped and nurtured.
se studies documented in the report, including the Sulabh paid-sanitation systems and Narayana Hrudayalaya's
bisine networks, identify five common constraints that hinder business activity in the developing world and five
Bal strategies that integrate them into the value chain. Among the letter are pioneering adaptations of technology
ness processes that underpin many low-cost telecommunication, financial, healthcare and other services and
for the poor. Their impact on small and medium enterprises has been nothing less than revolutionary wireless
reduce dependence on physical infrastructure; smart cards do away with the need for banks and service
to follow up on payments: and biometrics help overcome inefficient regulation
these innovative adaptations of technologies and business models offer solutions to those the one billion who
access to clean drinking water and the 16 billion who are without electricity. These bottom-up approaches lend
red tape and bureaucratic apathy. India's massive strides in information
in the face of traditional impediments
mmunication technologies are not matched by a realisation of its full potential in several domestic sectors.
Drawing important
important lessons from the current report will go a 43 long way in securing equity and fair distribution of
ains of development and sustaining the current economic momentum
On the basis of your understanding of the above passage make notes on it, using headings and subheadings.
(5 Marks)
The recognisable abbreviations (wherever necessary - minimum four) and a format you consider suitable.
Also supply an appropriate title to it.
(5 Marks)
B. Write a summary of the passage in about 80-100 words.
Seace for Notes