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Social Business for Poverty Reduction ー A Case Study of Grameen Shakti (Energy) ー Tsuboi, Hiromi social business poverty reduction Grameen Shakti Social businesses, which are neither charity nor regular businesses but aim explicitly to achieve social goals through business activities, have been spreading worldwide since the late 1990’s. One of the most influential social business institutions is the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. The Grameen Bank has created more than 20 family companies in various fields. The Grameen Shakti (Energy) is one of them － a pioneering and the first company in the world to promote solar energy technology to rural communities and develop a sustainable and cost-effective renewable energy program for the poor. This report first presents an overview of the Grameen Shakti, and then examines how the lives of rural people have been improved by its activities. 秋田大学工学資源学部 2007-10-31 eng departmental bulletin paper VoR http://hdl.handle.net/10295/459 https://air.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/726 13457241 AA11410906 秋田大学工学資源学部研究報告 Scientific and technical reports of Faculty of Engineering and Resource Science,Akita University 28 31 35 https://air.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/726/files/koushi28e.pdf application/pdf 1.1 MB 2017-02-16