A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy

by Craig Wilson and George Lodge

Book Overview

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 the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171173
• ISBN13: 9780691171173
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"