PECASE: Design Strategies to Benefit from the Profit-by-Poverty-Alleviation Paradox

PECASE：设计从扶贫增利悖论中受益的策略

• 批准号: 0954580
• 负责人: Christopher Mattson
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Brigham Young University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-15 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0954580&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PECASE; Design; Strategies; Benefit; Profit

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to create methods for designing extremely affordable products aimed at alleviating poverty in the developing world while simultaneously opening new foreign markets to US companies. Surprisingly, this approach of financially gaining from helping the poor to escape poverty is one of the most sustainable paths to poverty alleviation. Products designed using the methods created under this award foster self-sufficiency by increasing the earning power of those who are living in extreme poverty. These income-generating products are made affordable by their strategic modularity, which makes them progressively expandable, thus facilitating incremental investment by the impoverished. The research approach includes the creation of multidisciplinary decision-making models for extreme affordability, product expandability, and decision robustness. Deliverables include documented research results, and undergraduate and graduate teaching modules made available via the World Wide Web.If successful, the research will result in the discovery and articulation of fundamental principles of sustainable design for the developing world. These principles, which enable affordable, low risk, products that increase the earning power of people living in extreme poverty, are the fundamental basis of the research and teaching modules resulting from this work. If successful, the research will positively affect many people's lives. For the impoverished, breakthroughs in affordability of income-generating products lead to increased income, which in turn lowers sickness, improves educational opportunities, improves local water supplies, and combats hunger. For US companies searching for new and suitable foreign markets, the proposed work provides needed design methods for creating viable products for those markets.

该教师早期职业发展（职业）奖的研究目标是创建设计旨在减轻发展中国家贫困的极其负担得起的产品的方法，同时向美国公司开放新的外国市场。令人惊讶的是，这种从帮助穷人逃避贫困的财务上获得的方法是缓解贫困的最可持续的途径之一。使用该奖项促进自给自足的方法设计的产品，通过增加生活在极端贫困中的人的赚钱能力。这些产生收入的产品是通过其战略模块化使其可负担得起的，这使其逐渐扩展，从而促进了贫困者的增量投资。研究方法包括创建多学科决策模型，以实现极端负担能力，产品可扩展性和决策鲁棒性。可交付成果包括有记录的研究结果，以及通过万维网提供的本科和研究生教学模块。如果成功，该研究将导致发现和阐明发展中国家可持续设计的基本原理。这些原则可以实现负担得起的低风险，增加了居住在极端贫困中的人们的收入能力的产品，是这项工作引起的研究和教学模块的基本基础。如果成功，这项研究将对许多人的生活产生积极影响。对于贫困的收入产生产品负担能力的贫困突破导致收入增加，这反过来降低了疾病，改善了教育机会，改善了当地的供水并打击饥饿。对于寻找新的和合适的国外市场的美国公司，拟议中的工作提供了为这些市场创建可行产品所需的设计方法。