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25 August 2011

Thomas Pogge breaks down narratives about our efforts to fight world poverty and exposes a series of broken promises and rigged initiatives

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aflluent countries, anti-dumping, banks, Branko Milanovic, China, climate change, corruption, developing countries, development assistance, DRC, economic growth, economic system, economy, efficiency, embezzlement, employment, endemic malaria, extreme poverty, extreme weather, feudal system, Food and Agriculture Organization, free market, GFI, global economic growth, Global Financial Integrity, global warming, governing a globalized world, government, green, health, hunger, impoverishment, Indonesia, institutional design, institutional reform, issue 7, Kofi Annan, lenders, Making It magazine, MDGs, media, Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals, natural resources, Nigeria, oppression, politics, pollution, poor, population, post-MDG era, premature deaths, private foreign aid, public foreign aid, rising sea levels, Rome Declaration, statistics, sustainability, sustainable, Thomas Pogge, trade, UN, UN FAO, undernutrition, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, weapons, World Bank, World Food Security, world poverty, Yale University

The poverty footprint

28 March 2011

Mary Arnesen, Business and Markets Project Manager at Oxfam GB, introduces a new way to help companies understand how their business affects the people where they operate

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advocacy, agenda, alleviation, assess, awareness, business, business relations, civil society, climate change, community, company, consumers, countries, credit, crime, culture, developing countries, disaster risk reduction, distribution, éducation, empowerment, environment, equality, footprint, framework, gender, Gerry Boyle, health care, idea, identity, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, institution, issue 5, jobs, Kyle Cahill, livelihood, macro-economic, Making It, manufacturing, market, Mary Arnesen, media, methodologies, metrics, morals, multi-dimensional, natural disasters, outsourcing, Oxfam America, Oxfam GB, policies, poor people, poverty, Poverty Footprint, power, production, qualitative, quantitative, reduction, report, research, rights, rules, security, social impact, stability, stakeholder, strategy, trade, transparency, UNIDO, Unilever, United Nations, value chain, values, violence

From villains to visionaries

22 March 2011

SABMiller’s Andy Wales argues that many companies now view corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, and environmental compliance as increasingly important to business strategy

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2030 Water Resources Group, agriculture, Andy Wales, Asia, Big Business, Big Responsibility, book, British, business strategy, child labour, China Mobile, climate change, Coca-Cola, collaboration, communication, community, companies, Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, corporate social responsibility, credibility, development, ecology, efficiency, environmental compliance, expression, freedom, from villains to visionaries, Global Network Initiative, GNI, government, guidelines, Gulf of Mexico, human rights abuses, India, Industrial Development Organization, information, International Finance Corporation, intervention, local, magazine, Making It, market, McKinsey, media, Nestlé, ngos, Nike, non-governmental organizations, oil spills, opportunity, philanthropy, philosophy, policy, privacy, protection, public, resources, risk, rural areas, rural information network, SABMiller, South Africa, Standard Chartered, sustainability, technology, Unilever, United Nations, violation, water, World Economic Forum

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