“The World Economic Forum is pleased to issue this report, which examines how core industry capabilities can be applied to three of the most pressing development challenges of our time: hunger, malaria, and basic education. … A recurrent theme in the Forum’s growing body of work on PPPs is that companies are often far more prepared to apply their business expertise or assets to a problem they see in their operating environment than to issue a one-off charitable cash grant. Yet development institutions have not traditionally viewed the engagement of core business skills and other in- kind resources as an explicit element of their strategy. As a result, neither they nor other parts of the international community have taken the necessary first step of systematically analysing the possible intersection of the core capabilities companies possess and the so-called ‘value chain’ of development assistance needs in areas such as infectious diseases, basic education, water and sanitation, and so on. This report is a first attempt to do so with respect hunger, malaria, and basic education, drawing upon the communities of experts within the Forum’s existing initiatives and participating companies. It is intended to be a practical tool that companies, governments, and others can use to identify new areas of public-private cooperation in development partnerships.”