A large retailer with several million active customers was growing more slowly and competing…
Financial Inclusion and G2P payments: Lessons from South Africa
G2P payments in South Africa, banking millions? The South African government, through the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), provides social assistance in the form of monthly payments to around 16.9 million beneficiaries including qualifying children,...
What is an informal settlement?
For the past five years Eighty20 has worked closely with the Housing Development Agency to enumerate and profile informal settlements across South Africa. In part, this research was borne out of the need to fill key gaps in our understanding of informal settlements in...
What is the opportunity for companies at the Bottom of the Pyramid?
In 2002, C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart wrote their seminal article “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid1” that preceded the publication of Prahalad’s book by the same name. The article highlighted that the poor warrant the attention not only of the State or NGOs...
