Factors effecting basic needs service design and innovation at the bottom of the pyramid

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dc.contributor.advisorBolton, Simon
dc.contributor.authorMercer, Alexander Peter
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-03T13:50:37Z
dc.date.available2013-06-03T13:50:37Z
dc.date.issued2012-08
dc.description.abstractThe research carried out in thesis is sub-set of a longer on-going project to facilitate a sustainable ‘demand driven’ approach to water and sanitation product and service development. The project aims to achieve public and private health benefits where urban low-income tenant households, typically living in slums and informal housing areas, cannot access the conventional infrastructure. These families that rent a single room in a slum for $10 per month and who may be earning an uncertain wage of $2 per day. Unable to afford to invest in fixed assets when they might be required to move at very short notice. The project seeks to deliver desirable products to the local market, the one billion growing to two billion slum dwellers, which will be available for years to come. This is irrespective of any on-going donor involvement and possibly in advance of formal recognition and infrastructure investment by conventional service providers. Cont/d.en_UK
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dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/7953
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherCranfield Universityen_UK
dc.rights© Cranfield University 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright owner.en_UK
dc.subjectSubsistence marketsen_UK
dc.subjectaspirationsen_UK
dc.subjectnew product developmenten_UK
dc.subjecturban informal settlementsen_UK
dc.subjectslumsen_UK
dc.subjectwater and sanitationen_UK
dc.subjectAfricaen_UK
dc.subjectLow-incomeen_UK
dc.titleFactors effecting basic needs service design and innovation at the bottom of the pyramiden_UK
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_UK
dc.type.qualificationlevelMastersen_UK
dc.type.qualificationnameMSc by Researchen_UK

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