This week, the BoP Global Network Summit held in Delhi focussed on how industry, through its CSR funds, could help the population that lives at the base of the economic pyramid.

“While we have made substantial headway in alleviating abject poverty over the past two decades, we have yet to effectively engage the billions of under-served, low-income people around the world who earn between $2 and $10 per day per capita,” said Stuart Hart, Professor Sustainability, Vermont Business School, US, who has founded the network.

Participants from 26 countries listened to ideas put forth by enterprises, academicians and voluntary organisations.

Several of them went on educative field visits to places like the Narela agriculture market, the Mohalla Clinics started by the State Government and the solid waste to energy plant in Okhla.

They also engaged with stakeholders such as farmers, traders and patients to work on a way forward. Its outcome still remains to be seen.

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