Inclusive Business and Value Chains

 

Recent Submissions

  • Banco Palmas: Solidarity Finance in Conjunto Palmeiras 

    De Sousa Aragao, Gabriel; Cannon, Mariah; Lopez-Franco, Erika; Thorpe, Jodie (IDS, 2020-04)
    Banco Palmas is one of the early examples of solidarity finance. Emerging from a peri-urban slum in Brazil, this initiative is based on three key pillars: small, communitysanctioned loans; a local currency (to keep wealth ...

  • ASMARE: Informal Waste Workers Engaging in Municipal Policy-Making 

    Cannon, Mariah; Thorpe, Jodie; Emili, Silvia (IDS, 2020-03)
    ASMARE is an association of informal waste workers ( catadores ) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Founded in 1990, it was the first step of involving catadores as a part of the city’s waste collection scheme. With ASMARE, the ...

  • Do Businesses from the BRICS Contribute to Development in Africa? 

    Navas-Alemán, L (IDS, 2015-10)
    As businesses from emerging economies become more globalised, expectations are raised about their role as responsible corporate citizens and development actors when operating in low-income countries. While businesses ...

  • Development Banks from the BRICS 

    Barone, B; Spratt, Stephen (IDS, 2015-02)
    The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South ...