What is Market System Development?
Improving the lives of the poor – stimulating growth and expanding access means – transforming the systems around them. Market systems development recognizes this reality and provided a coherent, rigorous approach to understanding and intervening in market systems so that they function more efficiently and sustainably for poor women and men.
Market System Change is a change in the way core functions, supporting functions and rules perform that ultimately improves the poor’s terms of participation within the market system