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Author : Subhash C. Jain,Sushil Vachani
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : International business enterprises
ISBN : UCSD:31822034418590
Argues that multinational corporations have contributed and can continue to contribute enormously to the reduction of global poverty.
Author : George Lodge,Craig Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691171173
World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty, George Lodge and Craig Wilson assert that MNCs have the critical combination of capabilities required to build investment, grow economies, and create jobs in poor countries, and thus to reduce poverty. Furthermore, they can do so profitably and thus sustainably. But they lack legitimacy and risk can be high, and so a collective approach is better than one in which an individual company proceeds alone. Thus a UN-sponsored WDC, owned and managed by a dozen or so MNCs with NGO support, will make a marked difference. At a time when big business has been demonized for destroying the environment, enjoying one-sided benefits from globalization, and deceiving investors, the book argues, MNCs have much to gain from becoming more effective in reducing global poverty. This is not a call for philanthropy. Lodge and Wilson believe that corporate support for the World Development Corporation will benefit not only the world's poor but also company shareholders as a result of improved MNC legitimacy and stronger markets and profitability.
Author : Craig Wilson,Peter Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351280464
Poor people in developing countries could make excellent suppliers, employees and customers but are often ignored by major businesses. This omission leads to increased risk, higher costs and lower sales. Meanwhile, businesses are asked by governments and poverty activists to do more for economic development, but their exhortations are rarely based on a proper business case. Make Poverty Business bridges the gap by constructing a rigorous profit-making argument for multinational corporations to do more business with the poor. It takes economic development out of the corporate social responsibility ghetto and places it firmly in the core business interests of the corporation, and argues that to see the poor only as potential consumers at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) misses half of the story. Make Poverty Business examines the successes, failures and missed opportunities of a wide range of global companies including Wal-Mart, BP, Unilever, Shell and HSBC when dealing with the poor and with development advocates in the media, NGOs, governments and international organisations. It includes a discussion on how to use a poverty perspective to provoke profitable innovation – not only to create new products and services but also to find new sources of competitive advantage in the supply chain and to develop more sustainable, lower-cost business models in developing countries. Make Poverty Business will be essential reading for international business managers seeking to increase profits and decrease risks in developing countries, development advocates who seek to harness the profit motive to achieve reductions in poverty, and academics looking for practical strategies on how business can implement BOP initiatives in developing countries.
Author : Lee A. Tavis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015292009
Seminar conference report on the role and responsibilitys of multinational enterprises in poverty reduction in developing countries - discusses their role in employment creation, welfare, community development, technology transfer and in structuring a new international economic order; includes a case study of an agribusiness firm in the Philippines and a summary report of a 1979 UNCSTD Conference. Maps and references. List of participants. Conference held in Notre Dame 1978 and 1979.
Author : V. Kashturi Rangan,John A. Quelch,Gustavo Herrero,Brooke Barton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787988548
Based on research presented at The Harvard Business School’s first-ever conference on business approaches to poverty alleviation, Business Solutions for the Global Poor brings together perspectives from leading academics and corporate, non-profit and public sector managers. The contributors draw on practical and dynamic how-to insights from leading BOP ventures from more than twenty countries world-wide. This important volume reflects poverty’s multi-faceted nature and a broad range of actors—multinational and local businesses, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and governments—that play a role in its alleviation.
Author : Pervez N. Ghauri,Xiaolan Fu,Juha Väätänen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787431645
This volume reports the results of the large international 'MNEmerge' research project, financed by the European Commission, and provides an understanding of the impact of multinational enterprises on United Nations Millennium Development Goals and successive Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries.
Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226318004
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Author : Michael U. Klein,Carl Aaron,Bita Hadjimichael
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Crecimiento economico
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In the 1990s, foreign direct investment began to swamp all other cross-border capital flows into developing countries. Does foreign direct investment support sound development? In particular, does it contribute to poverty reduction?
Author : Dingha Ngoh Fobete
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640179640
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 2, University of Kassel, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Multinational Corporations (MNC) are important transitional agents in the contemporary global political economy. Although they can be viewed as economic actors following the logic of international market, their activities inevitably arouse questions of national power. Not surprisingly, such questions are most pronounced in the study of developing countries where weak government and societies potentially give the MNC strong bargaining position. Thus, the nature of their relationship between developing countries and the implication of this relationship for economic growth remains highly controversial. How ever, proponents of MNC posit in the past that MNC have made important contribution to developing countries. This interaction between MNCs and third world economy has led to a profound relationship whose impacts are enormous. Although many scholars have written more on the impact of MNC on host less developed countries, the most important question is, Do foreign firms behave differently from locally owned firms and if so what are their implication? Multinational corporations are one of the main conduits through which investment is channelled and their evolution has reflected broader developments (OECD 2003). This impact however will be examined from the negative and positive impact gearing towards the development of third world. However it is imperative to examine the characteristics of developing countries as well as some objectives of Multinational Corporations (MNC).
Author : Hipsher, Scott A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522531180
The private sector is a vital factor in creating the wealth and economic growth needed to reduce poverty in a significant and sustainable manner. However, there are many obstacles preventing private sector firms from engaging in business where poverty is widespread. Examining the Private Sector’s Role in Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction explores poverty alleviation in developing economies through the creation of livelihood options developed by private sector activities. Examining relevant topics such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) frameworks, multinational enterprises, and responsible tourism, this publication is an ideal resource for private sector firms, researchers, academicians, professionals, and students interested in wealth creation in areas of extreme poverty.
Author : Ronald K.S. Wakyereza
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527541665
The textbook experience of poverty can be witnessed in a number of developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America. Accordingly, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been identified as an important tool for poverty reduction, as it is noted to accelerate economic growth and employment in a nation, and is currently an essential issue for countries such as Uganda. This book finds that Ragnar’s 1953 ‘Vicious-Circle of Poverty’ remains undisputed even today, showing that attracting FDI is not the end, but that a nation’s absorption capacity is equally paramount. The implications of the FDI ‘frog-leap theory’ for developing countries and the Community Capital Absorption Capacity Development (CCACD) framework provide plausible poverty reduction approaches in the 21st century. Without such measures, bringing an end to poverty is likely to elude governments and multinational corporations in developing countries.
Author : Veronika Minkova
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656016687
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,7, King s College London, language: English, abstract: The period from the end of the World War II to the mid-1970s saw world-wide sustained and high economic growth. Within a generation Western European society was transformed from predominantly agrarian to post-industrial. Latin America, Asia and Africa also were heading towards higher growth rates. During the 1980s, a new period of integration of national economies led to the intensification of international economic interconnectedness and developing economies were expected to overcome the between-country income gap through openness-growth link. This was seen as the manifestation of neoliberalism as new forms of international economic relations emerged such as industrialisation and the new international division of labour. However, as recent studies point towards increasing world poverty and inequality, scholars have re-examined the validity of the neoliberal argument. After years of implementing prescribed reforms, some developing countries and regions, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, have not experienced the expected growth. Chapter 2 summarizes the implications of the policy-paradigm inspired by the Washington Consensus. Chapter 3 identifies current trends in global poverty and inequality with attention to the different measures used to interpret world economic well-being. The next chapter analyses the openness-growth-inequality-poverty nexus. The final chapter seeks to recognize causes of poverty and inequality transmitted by the globalization process. The factors of poverty and inequality path dependence are grouped in four categories: economic openness and technological progress; macroeconomic policies; financialisation of the economy; and international financial institutions.
Author : P. Utting,J. Marques
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230246966
This is the first of two volumes that examine the changing nature of state-business relations. This book assesses the potential and limits of CSR in developing countries, by focusing on aspects that are often ignored in the CSR literature: historical experience, theoretical perspectives, and institutional and political dimensions of change.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415801522
Approaches poverty alleviation from an atypical perspective. This title demonstrates that a mindset embracing initiatives developed by global corporations in response to the poverty challenge is significantly more effective that traditional approaches to the alleviation of poverty
Author : John-ren Chen,David Sapsford
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120990820
Explores the various ways in which the institutions of the global economy might rise to the challenges posed by the twin goals of increasing the pace of global development and alleviating poverty. This book also provides a much-needed analysis of the successes and failures of international institutions in achieving these aims.
