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Article

31 Jan 2005

Author:
Jem Bendell, Review of Corporate Responsibility

Will Corporations really help the world's poor?

...business engagement with poverty and development is essential but is currently poorly informed and over-hyped. Much of the profitable business with lower-income markets involves products such as mobile phones, not the provision of basic nutrition, sanitation, education and shelter, so the current expansion of profitable business in the global South does not necessarily imply poverty reduction.