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A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy
George Lodge
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Description for A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy
Hardback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691122298
SKU
V9780691122298
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About George Lodge
George Lodge is Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower named him Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs, a position to which President John F. Kennedy reappointed him several years later. His books include "Managing Globalization in the Age of Interdependence, The New American Ideology," and ... Read more
Reviews for A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy
"A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty provides a valuable
and exceedingly readable
primer on corporate social responsibility as well as a compelling approach to the use of corporate wealth to benefit the world's poorest."
Joshua Rosenthal, International Law and Politics
and exceedingly readable
primer on corporate social responsibility as well as a compelling approach to the use of corporate wealth to benefit the world's poorest."
Joshua Rosenthal, International Law and Politics