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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

But the reality is that high margins and very strong profitability are necessities for businesses serving what I prefer to call D and E consumers, those in the bottom two layers of the economic pyramid. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. The result has been explosive growth.