Last Mile Solutions for Low-Income Customers: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Build Sustainable Rural Value Chains for Essential Products and Services
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Author(s): R. Gomes, M. Shah
Published by: Shell Foundation

Summary

“In this Shell Foundation report, we share the findings from our work with leading social enterprises to build sustainable rural value chains in the off-grid energy sector over the last two decades. This report focuses on the question: can we improve the economics of social enterprises serving last mile customers to the point where they can secure sufficient investment to serve billions, not millions, of people who live on $2 to $10 a day?”