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Business and Development [subscription only]
As world leaders gather in New York to review progress on meeting goals to halve extreme poverty by 2015, the FT looks at the arguments in favour of a commercial approach to development issues. [Supplement contains several articles. Companies referred to include: Nestlé, Abbott Laboratories, Standard Chartered, BP, Rio Tinto, Shell, Citigroup, Unilever, ABB, EDF, Tetra Pak, KX Industries, Procter & Gamble, Marks & Spencer, Sumitomo Chemical, npower (part of RWE), Chiquita, Levi Strauss, Thames Water, Nike]