A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty : : How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy /

A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty : : How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy / / George Lodge, Craig Wilson.

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 Financ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lodge, George,
Wilson, Craig,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2006
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Part I. The Legitimacy Gap
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Legitimacy of Business
  • Part II. Reactions, Responses, and Responsibilities
  • 3. NGOs and the Attack: Critics, Watchdogs, and Collaborators
  • 4. The Corporate Response
  • 5. International Development Architecture
  • 6. The Emerging International Consensus
  • Part III. Global Poverty Reduction and the Role of Big Business
  • 7. The Options for Business Contributions
  • 8. A World Development Corporation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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