Introduction
Making markets work for the poor (M4P) is a practical approach to reducing poverty, grounded in best practice and guided by four underlying principles:
01Systemic action
M4P focuses on systemic action: understanding where market systems are failing to serve the needs of the poor, and acting to correct those failings.
02Sustainable change
M4P seeks sustainable change from the outset: delivering sustainable outcomes by better aligning key market functions and players with the incentives and capacity to work more effect...
03Large-scale impact
M4P pursues large- scale impact: targeting intervention that benefits large numbers of poor people
04Facilitative role
M4P adopts a facilitative role: determining a catalytic purpose for the development agent that stimulates, but does not displace, market functions or players.