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Article

7 Feb 2005

Author:
James Laing, Associate Director, africapractice Corporate Citizenship Centre, in East African [Kenya]

Private Sector Can Help Africa Emerge From Poverty

Businesses have to define for themselves how they will contribute to the attainment of the MDGs, and report against that self-defined target: there are as many ways of contributing to the MDGs, and as many benefits accruing from them, as there are businesses. [refers to Barclays, United Africa Group, Coca-Cola, Royal Philips Electronics, Toyota, Shell, General Motors, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble, Merck, Anglo American]