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Article

8 Dec 2005

Author:
Alison Maitland, Financial Times

Globalisation’s strange bedfellows [Indonesia]

It takes a good deal of courage...for a multinational company operating in impoverished parts of the world to open its internal documents to scrutiny by campaigners for fairer globalisation. But that is what Unilever has done in a groundbreaking project with Oxfam...For nearly two years, the consumer goods company has allowed Oxfam to probe and analyse its socio-economic impact in one very large country, Indonesia...