Getting to scale [electronic resource] : how to bring development solutions to millions of poor people / Laurence Chandy, Akio Hosono, Homi Kharas, and Johannes Linn, editors.

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TextPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 2015); Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 383 pages) :) illustrationsISBN:

9780815724209
0815724209

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338.9109172/4 23

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HC59.72.E44 G48 2013

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Preface -- 1. Overview : the challenge of reaching scale / Laurence Chandy, Akio Hosono, Homi Kharas, and Johannes Linn -- 2. Why business models matter / Michael Kubzansky -- 3. From scaled-up budgets to scaled-up impact : a decade of rising foreign aid in review / Laurence Chandy -- 4. Scaling up impact : vertical funds and innovative governance / David Gartner and Homi Kharas -- 5. Incentives and accountability for scaling up / Johannes F. Linn -- 6. Angel investments : enterprise solutions to scale / Chris West -- 7. Scaling up through disruptive business models : the inside story of mobile money in Kenya / Pauline Vaughan, Wolfgang Fengler, and Michael Joseph -- 8. Meeting the demand of the poor : two cases of business-led scaling up at the base of the pyramid / Hiroshi Kato and Akio Hosono -- 9. Scaling up south-south cooperation through triangular cooperation : the Japanese experience / Akio Hosono -- 10. Institutional challenges to scaling up learning in Kenya / Tessa Bold [and others] -- 11. Scaling up in education : school-based management in Niger / Shunichiro Honda and Hiroshi Kato -- 12. Scaling up impact through public-private partnerships / Jane Nelson -- Contributors -- Index.

Summary: Visit any developing country and you will find governments, international donors, NGOs, and corporations involved in a range of innovative activities to address the needs of the poor. Only a fraction of those that show promise at a localized level, however, will ever be replicated, expanded, and sustained to achieve a transformative impact. Learning how to expand the reach of proven interventions so that they help larger numbers of poor people - 'scaling up' - is a fundamental challenge facing the developing world. This book improves our understanding of how scaling up can be achieved and what the international community can do to support the process. Remarkably little is understood of how to design scalable projects, the impediments to reaching scale, or the most appropriate pathways for reaching that goal. To answer these questions, this book features a series of case studies drawn from both the public and private sectors to demonstrate how the scaling up of services for the world's poor can happen. By linking public and private experience, the authors argue that successful scaling up will not be achieved by either public or private sector efforts alone. Rather, it will require both public and private efforts working together. This book demonstrates that the challenges to scaling up are complex and various, but ultimately surmountable. It provides an invaluable resource for development practitioners, analysts, and students on a topic that remains largely unexplored and poorly understood.

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Visit any developing country and you will find governments, international donors, NGOs, and corporations involved in a range of innovative activities to address the needs of the poor. Only a fraction of those that show promise at a localized level, however, will ever be replicated, expanded, and sustained to achieve a transformative impact. Learning how to expand the reach of proven interventions so that they help larger numbers of poor people - 'scaling up' - is a fundamental challenge facing the developing world. This book improves our understanding of how scaling up can be achieved and what the international community can do to support the process. Remarkably little is understood of how to design scalable projects, the impediments to reaching scale, or the most appropriate pathways for reaching that goal. To answer these questions, this book features a series of case studies drawn from both the public and private sectors to demonstrate how the scaling up of services for the world's poor can happen. By linking public and private experience, the authors argue that successful scaling up will not be achieved by either public or private sector efforts alone. Rather, it will require both public and private efforts working together. This book demonstrates that the challenges to scaling up are complex and various, but ultimately surmountable. It provides an invaluable resource for development practitioners, analysts, and students on a topic that remains largely unexplored and poorly understood.

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