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Article

14 Sep 2005

Author:
William Baue, SocialFunds.com

Business Impacts on Millennium Development Goals: A Virtuous Cycle or a Coin Toss?

A new World Business Council for Sustainable Development report profiles corporate initiatives to alleviate poverty, but focuses less attention on how business may confound such goals...For example, the report details how BP promotes the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises along its supply chain through an Enterprise Centre it opened in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2002...However...completely elides that fact that the [Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan] project is the subject of persistent and ongoing critiques due to its social and environmental impacts. [also refers to Procter & Gamble]