Public Culture· 2012Q2
Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Public Goods at the Bottom of the Pyramid
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Short summary
The 'bottom of the pyramid' (BOP) approach, which emphasizes businesspeople realizing poor people's capacity to create infrastructure and business models, is an unintended outgrowth of critiques of traditional development, leading to the disappearance of the state, development, and public goods.
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Key points
- The BOP approach shifts focus from state-led development to business-driven initiatives by poor populations.
- BOP emerged as an unintended consequence of critiques against traditional development models.
- Infrastructures created by poor communities can be viewed as a 'commons' or a public good.
- The role of the state and public goods is diminished in the BOP framework.
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Abstract
How to move beyond the failures of development? In the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) approach, the state, development, and public goods disappear. Instead, nongovernmental organizations help businesspeople realize poor people’s capacity to create infrastructure and business models. I draw on the history of development to show how the BOP is an unintended outgrowth of the critique of development. Drawing on previous formulations of the BOP, I propose that the infrastructures created by poor people’s social practices can also be understood as a “commons” for which compensation should be paid or as a public good to be regulated by the state.
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