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Special Report on Foreign Investment and Development: Who Gains?
Special Report on Foreign Investment and Development: Who Gains?
Published 02-01-05
Submitted by Development Gateway
Three experts are interviewed and provide unique viewpoints from the corporate, civil society, and policymaker perspectives. Expressing their viewpoints are: Mr. George Carpenter of Procter & Gamble, Mr. Jaslin Salmon from the Poverty Eradication Programme, Office of the Prime Minister of Jamaica, and Ms. Reema Nanavty of the Self-employed Women's Association (SEWA) in India. Ms. Nanavty points to the difficulties of strengthening the domestic sector: "More is being done to attract foreign investment than to formalize and provide opportunities for domestic growth since this takes so much longer to build up."
Following the interviews are three feature collections addressing practical issues pertaining to foreign investment in developing countries:
Also, stay tuned for more exclusive interviews with John Dunning, award winning Professor of International Business at Rutgers University and the University of Reading, Ted London, Director, Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory, as well as video presentations with Carly Fiorina, President & CEO, Hewlett-Packard, and C.K. Prahalad, author, "Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid."
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Our partners for this Special Report include: World Resources Institute, World Economic Forum, Foreign Policy, AccountAbility, Cultural Survival, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, PrivatizationLink, International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises, SEWA, MIGA, University of North Carolina Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory, Corporate Council on Africa, CSRWire and more. Financial support for this Special Report comes from The Development Executive Group, a provider of international development jobs, business leads, and market news.
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