What is life like at the base of the economic pyramid?  How can social enterprises reach the people of the BoP at a scale that can generate widespread improvement in peoples' lives?  Last Wednesday, a panel entitled "Measuring Life at the Base of the Pyramid: Scale and Leverage for the $2 a Day Population" addressed thesequestions; Rob Katz of Acumen Fund and Maya Chorengel of Elevar Equity provided an opportunity to examine these issues through a real world example.

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