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The business of global poverty (pdf 770kb)

This article discusses the role business can play as the world confronts the socioeconomic challenges of the 21st century.

The article gives insight into:
- The role multinational corporations are playing in engaging communities and whether they are doing so sufficiently enough to lift them out of poverty
- Using microfinance to address poverty
- The negative effects of unrestrained capitalism

Resource link:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pdf/item/ 5656.pdf
Published: 2007
Source: Harvard Business School (http://www.hbs.edu)
Added to ADG on: 15 January 2008 , contributed by: ADG team
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