Africa

Angola

•  Angola Press-"Angola:UNDP Launches Market Development Initiatives"

Kenya

• Business Daily-"Safaricom, K-Rep win praise for including the Poor in business model"
• Daily Nation-"UNDP spells out business strategies to help poor"

Mauritius

• Proceedings from the launch event
• Le Défi Media-"Group-Four-fold plan to create value for all"
• Le Mauricien-"Le PNUD veut mobiliser le secteur privé contre la pauvreté"
• National TV evening news report (in French)

Nigeria

• Launch press release
• Afriquenligne-"UNDP's Growing Inclusive Markets report launched in Nigeria"
• Daily Triumph-"UNDP joins FG on 7-point agenda"
• All Africa Daily Trust-"Business Environment Not Conducive for Private Sector"
• Business Day-"Poor are potential partners"

Rwanda

• Launch press release
• The New Times-"UNDP Launches Growing Inclusive Markets Report"

South Africa

• Mail & Guardian Online-"The black swan and recession"

Zambia

• Country office launch report
• Newspaper clippings
  

Arab States

Asia and the Pacific

India 

• The Economic Times-"Potential of the poor to power growth, private businesses"
• The Mint-"Business with the poor"
• Financial Express-"Charity begins at home', the right mantra for companies"
• Financial Express-"Poor make good entrepreneurs:UN
• Indo-Asian News Services-"Private sector can make money and still fight poverty"
• India Post-UNDP report unveils strategies for engaging the poor
• Mangalorean.com- Private sector can make money and still fight poverty:UNDP
• UNI(United News of India)-"UNDP cites Success stories of 3 India Cos Engaging the Poor"
• The Hindustan Times-"Banking tools for rural India, a big hit in west"
• Central Chronicle-"Who says poor not rich? earn $5 trillion"

Indonesia

• The Jakarta Post-"Private Sector urged to engage poor"

Europe and the CIS

Bosnia & Herzegovina

• Nezavisne Novine-"Include the poor into development of the companies"
• Oslobodjenje-"Private sector can help the poor"
• SAN-"How to join together profit and the poor"

Moldova

• Press Release [English, Romanian, Russian]
• Magazin Economic-"Sectorul privat nu cunoaşte necesităţile oamenilor sărac"

Latin America and the Caribbean

North America and Western Europe

Canada

Updates coming soon

Denmark

•  Ingenioren
• Danish News agency Ritzaus Bureau

United States

• The New York Times-"Untouchables' Enjoy a Night of Fashion"
• AFP-"New Toilet technology empowers low-cast Indian women"
• UPI-"U.N. report urges businesses to help poor"

France

• Libération-"Les pauvres, un néomarché" (in French)
• Les Echos- "Les entreprises face aux défis de la pauvreté" by Kemal Dervis and Jean-Michel Severino (in French) [PDF]

1 July 2008

The first launch of the Creating Value for All Report took place in Paris on July 1 and was hosted by the French Development Agency (AFD). The seminar – which gathered about 100 participants from the private sector, the public sector and civil society – opened with introductory speeches from Jean-Michel Severino, Head of ADF, and Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Partnerships Bureau (UNDP). Sahba Sobhani, Programme Manager of the GIM Initiative, and Mamadou Gaye, Senegalese case author, presented the Report and its methodology, while private sector representatives Guy Marboeuf from Electricité de France (EDF) and Grégoire Guyon from Armor-Lux shared their experience of doing business with the poor in Mali. The launch event was officially closed by a speech from Mr. Alain Joyandet, French Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophonie.

Please find below additional information related to the launch in Paris:

• Libération, "Les pauvres, un néomarché" [PDF]
• Les Echos, "Les entreprises face aux défis de la pauvreté", by Kemal Dervis and Jean-Michel Severino [PDF]
• Speech of Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Partnerships Bureau (UNDP) (in French)

20 June 2008

In Halifax, Canada, an unprecedented number of academics from all over the world gathered around the topic of core business contributions to development. This key conference – hosted by our partner Dalhousie University and organized in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) – marked the official launch of the Growing Inclusive Markets case studies and website.

For more information, visit http://www.gim2008.ca/ or download the press release [PDF].

To download the press release  from The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development  [PDF]