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Hybrid Value Chain Resource Library
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
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
- The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid
- Doing Business with the Poor — A Field Guide
- 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