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George Lodge Craig Wilson

A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty

How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy

George Lodge, Craig Wilson

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Princeton University Press
06 September 2016

Poverty & unemployment; Development economics

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 th

By: George Lodge, Craig Wilson
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 312g
ISBN: 9780691171173
ISBN 10: 0691171173
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 06 September 2016
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 The American Disease. After spending nine years in the Australian foreign service, Craig Wilson worked for five years as a consultant economist with the World Bank and other NGOs. In 2005 he joined the International Finance Corporation and is currently based in Bangladesh, where he is managing a program aimed at improving the investment environment in South Asia.

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