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In a more globalized world, business and trade increasingly impact on poverty and global development. With a focus on Africa, the module takes account of prevailing business paradigms and explores alternative models and frameworks. Students will be exposed to personal and up-to-date examples of businesses that have embraced markets in the global south and they will have the opportunity to understand a range of business models such as inclusive business, creating shared value and building sustainable supply chains.The module explores how enterprises can be profitable and successfully contribute to poverty reduction by including low income communities in the value chain on the demand side as consumers, clients, and/or on the supply side as producers, entrepreneurs or employees. Through a stakeholder framework the module considers complex questions such as business and human rights, and the role of business in creating sustainable development. Students have the opportunity to reflect and debate these choices and their implications from a number of perspectives. Finally, students have the opportunity to consider how one’s personal and professional choices are connected to development.