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All recent news postings can be found below:

 

"Marketplace Literacy: A Key to Unleashing Rural Consumption and Entrepreneurship" - Wall Street Journal - September 2009

"Article on BUS 101" - Business Today - Fall 2008

"From Subsistence Marketplaces to Sustainable Marketplaces: A Bottom-Up Perspective on the Role of Business in Poverty Alleviation" - Economist Intelligence

"Open Minds and Fresh Perspectives" - University of Illinois Alumni News and Notes - Spring 2009

"Story on Marketplace Literacy in the Financial Times" - Financial Times

"Emerging Lessons: For multinational companies, understanding the needs of poorer consumers can be profitable and socially responsible" - The Wall Street Journal

"Literacy & the Global Marketplace" - Illinois Business Perspectives

"Literacy, literate vs functional" - ChennaiOnline

"The plight the funtionally illiterate face at the grocery store" - Editorial in The News Gazette

"Shoppers who can't read make unwise buying decisions" - Inside Illinois

"Functionally Illiterate Consumers: A Sizable and Neglected Market Segment" - Association for Consumer Research

 

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