For further reading, Ashoka recommends the case studies and articles below. We invite you to submit resources for potential inclusion in our resource library by emailing

Business Social Convergence

• Excerpt from “Everyone A Changemaker” by Bill Drayton
• Harnessing the Power of Business to Solve Social Problems
• The Hybrid Value Chain: A Market-Based Approach to Unlocking Wealth and Sustainable Social Change
• Valeria Budinich, Chief Entrepreneur of FEC, explains how businesses and social entrepreneurs can collaborate through Hybrid Value Chain models to generate profits and create social impact

Hybrid Value Chain Models

• The Base of the Pyramid. Citizenship above Consumerism: Colombia’s Colcerámica (originally printed in ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America, Fall 2006)
• "Housing for All" Program
• FEC India Microhealth Insurance

Full Economic Citizenship Publication Series

• Volume 1: Market-Based Strategies Serving Low-Income Populations
• Volume 2: Hybrid Value Chains: Social Innovations and the Development of the Small Farmer Irrigation Market in Mexico
• Volume 3: Housing Solutions Serving Low-Income Populations
• How to Improve Health for All
• Global Urban Development Magazine

External Resources and Links

• The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid
• Doing Business with the Poor — A Field Guide

Recursos de Ciudadanía Económica Para Todos en Español

• Estrategias de Mercado que benefician a Poblaciones de Bajos Ingresos
• Cadenas Híbridas de Valor: irrigación y pequeños agricultores en México
• Soluciones de vivienda y nuevos modelos de negocios al servicio de las familias de bajos ingresos
• Innovación Social y Cadenas Híbridas de Valor - video de Valeria Budinich, Chief Entrepreneur, Ashoka's Full Economic Citizenship initiative