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Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor
 
 

Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor [Illustrated] (Paperback)

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Are transnational corporations (TNCs) the solution to poverty in the Third World or are they part of the problem? This is John Madeley's central concern in this exploration of large corporations. TNCs are usually promoted as the harbingers of rapid economic growth, jobs and development generally. Yet inequality between north and south, and within countries, continues to grow apace. So what is really happening? The author examines the impact on the poor of TNC activities in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, oil extraction, manufacturing and tourism. He charts how natural resources are being ceded to TNCs at the expense of local communities. He reveals the weakness of the productive links between TNC activity and national economies, and how the power of governments to control these corporations is declining. Yet the news is not all bad. Producers, consumers, local communities, even shareholders are beginning to demand that large corporations take other obligations besides profit into account.

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