Interest and investment in enterprise-based approaches to reduce the impoverishment faced by the base of the pyramid (BoP) continues to grow. Although recent research provides a greater understanding of the poverty-alleviation impacts from specific businesses, little has been done to compare impacts across businesses or business strategies. In this study, I address this gap by comparing the changes in well-being in young children, the segment considered most vulnerable to poverty, for four BoP businesses employing two different business strategies. Using a framework that incorporates a multi-dimensional perspective on who is impacted and how, I develop and compare business- and strategy-specific poverty impact profiles for the young children of key stakeholders. My findings contribute to a better understanding of how to utilize BoP businesses to address social goals.

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哪些业务最适合金字塔的底部？比较对幼儿的影响

对以企业为基础的方法来减少金字塔底层 (BoP) 面临的贫困的兴趣和投资继续增长。尽管最近的研究对特定企业的扶贫影响有了更深入的了解，但在比较不同企业或企业战略的影响方面几乎没有做任何事情。在这项研究中，我通过比较四家采用两种不同商业策略的 BoP 企业在幼儿（被认为最容易陷入贫困的群体）的幸福感变化来解决这一差距。使用一个包含关于谁受到影响以及如何受到影响的多维视角的框架，我为主要利益相关者的幼儿制定和比较了特定于业务和战略的贫困影响概况。