Using 16 case studies this book shows how disabled people can succeed in business and points the way towards economic self reliance. It offers advice to rehabilitation specialists and planners as well as surveying rehabilitation institutes to examine how far they meet the needs of disabled clients.

"Modern" integrated value chains need not necessarily exclude the smallest producers as this book aims to explain in detail by case studies. The issue is particularly topical in India, where modern retailing has come to the scene only recently and the majority of whose population are still small farmers and artisans. Following a brief introduction to the problem, 14 case studies from India are presented to illustrate how it is being solved in practice. The book also discusses the impact of organized retailing on small-scale traders, and finally analyses the case studies for an overview, with...

* shows how to make markets really work
* reduces dependence on donor agencies
* illustrates critical issues, new findings and radical changes with a wealth of wide-ranging material
* key title for all BDS practitioners

In the last 20 years, microfinance has made it possible for the first time for poor people to access reasonably priced financial services. More recently, another related revolution has started, which may have the potential to be equally dramatic. Small enterprises not only need credit --they also need many other services: training, advice, marketing,...

In spite of the current wave of globalization, the majority of the world's people remain poor, excluded from economic development. This book shows that disadvantaged smallholders and other poor people can be included in modern integrated value chains, which are profitable for them, for the value chain leaders, and for all the other processors and traders involved. And, that this can be done without subsidy, without donor or government aid, and without appeal to -corporate social responsibility-; it is simple good business.

Commercial and Inclusive Value Chains includes case...

In spite of the current wave of globalization, the majority of the world's people remain poor, excluded from economic development. This book shows that disadvantaged smallholders and other poor people can be included in modern integrated value chains, which are profitable for them, for the value chain leaders, and for all the other processors and traders involved. And, that this can be done without subsidy, without donor or government aid, and without appeal to -corporate social responsibility-; it is simple good business.

Commercial and Inclusive Value Chains includes case...

Microfinance institutions are today reaching hundreds of millions of clients throughout the global South, but the special needs of Muslim borrowers and savers, who wish to avoid any form of fixed interest, are badly served. The purpose of Islamic Microfinance is to introduce readers to the tenets of Islam and how they are applied to microfinance. It questions why, when mainstream Islamic finance is growing rapidly, are efforts to reach poor Muslim customers so far behind? Can Islamic microfinance as it grows maintain its original spirit of fairness, transparency and sharing, principles...