Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships : Globalization, Markets, and Economic Well-Being.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Poverty is a system -- Pyramid to diamond -- Systems thinking -- On-the-ground systemic challenges -- Systems thinking and the interdependence thesis -- Toward a solution -- Conclusion -- Note -- 2. Traditional strategies for the alleviation of poverty -- The United Nations -- Global financial organizations -- Bilateral foreign aid -- Personal and organizational philanthropy -- The role of business in global poverty alleviation -- Conclusion -- Note -- 3. Mental models and contributing biases on global poverty -- Mental models -- The biases of conceptualism and common sense -- The research paradox and bird's eye perspectives -- "One-size-fits-all" and paternalism -- Conclusion -- 4. Narratives of multinational for-profit enterprises and corporate social responsibility -- The red herring of globalization -- The biases of mental models -- The separation thesis -- What is left of corporate social responsibility? -- Corporate moral responsibilities: Another mental model -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Global poverty and moral imagination -- Moral imagination -- Deep dialogue with stakeholders -- MNEs and moral imagination -- Core competence and MNE contribution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Institutional barriers, moral risk, and transformative business ventures -- Five institutional barriers -- MNE market entry: Balancing moral risks -- Managing the entry risks due to corruption -- Managing the entry risks due to public policy instability -- Managing entry risks due to weak infrastructures -- Designing profitable partnerships that transform fragile communities -- Empowering the base of the pyramid as consumers -- Empowering people as producers -- Conclusion -- Notes.

7. Public-private partnerships and other hybrid models for poverty alleviation -- Impeding mental models -- Deep dialogue as a process that breaks down impeding mental models -- Public-private partnerships that create value -- The messy process of forming CSPs -- The transformative effect of public-private partnerships -- Other hybrid models -- Cross-sector partnerships, intra-sector ideology, and moral imagination -- Conclusion -- Note -- 8. Agriculture in the developing world: Ghana's experiments -- Ghana's agroecology initiative -- A worldwide confrontation -- Better living through agroecology -- Conflict, compromise, and cooperation -- A local initiative: Agroecology and resistance -- Agribusiness resistance movements -- Global domination vs. food sovereignty -- Ghana: Outcome and possibilities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Focused philanthropy -- Social interdependence, benevolence, and justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

Our thesis is that poverty can be reduced, if not eradicated, both locally and globally if we change our shared narratives about global free enterprise, and conceive of poverty alleviation as a "bottom up" project.

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