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17 Dec 2004

Author:
AccountAbility & Business for Social Responsibility

Millennium Development Goal: What's Business Got to do With it?

Corporate responsibility could be one of the keys to the Millennium Development Goals...the pharmaceutical, agriculture, extractives and bank sectors...are the focus of four new sectoral reports "Business and Economic Development" [by AccountAbility & Business for Social Responsibility]...There is a handful of companies that have started grappling with this dilemma in terms of how their economic footprint leads to social and environmental benefits for the disadvantaged. Banks and pharmaceutical companies are asking themselves how they can make their products and services accessible to the poor whilst remaining commercially viable. For mining and agriculture companies, their key economic impacts focus on production, employment and supply chain issues in the placed where they directly impact the communities where they work. [refers to Antamina, Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Starbucks, Unibanco (União de Bancos Brasileiros)]

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