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Article

16 Mar 2005

Author:
Rosemary Righter, Times [UK]

A charter for Africa's barefoot entrepreneurs

Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, the short report by the Shell Foundation...asks good questions. How and where to intervene? How best to complement local enterprise solutions to poverty, setting poor people on "the economic ladder to personal betterment"? How can the "nearly invisible markets" operated by the poor become growth centres for wealth creation? And how, to that end, to use the "value-creating assets" of multinationals as catalysts?