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Corporations are not inherently bad, only their business model
“In their dealings with corrupt dictators in developing countries, Pogge [a philosopher at Columbia University], asserts international corporations are not better than someone who knowingly buys stolen goods- with the difference that the legal and political order recognizes the corporations. This situation is beneficial for the industrial nations [and its unwitting citizens], because it enables us to obtain the raw materials we need to maintain our prosperity, but it is a disaster for resource-rich developing countries, turning the wealth that should benefit them into a curse that leads to a cycle of coups, civil wars, ....and is of little benefit to the people as a whole...Some of the extremely poor, most of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa, have nothing to sell that rich people want, while other lack the infrastructure to get their goods to market. If they can get their crops to a port, European and U.S. subsidies often mean that they cannot sell them...22 cents for every $100 the nation[U.S-half the percentage of GNI as the U.K.] earns....Worse still, much of it is directed where it best suits U.S. strategic interests....Less than a quarter of official U.S. development aid–barely a nickel in every $100 of our G.N.I. –goes to the world’s poorest nations. Unconstrained by diplomatic considerations or the desire to swing votes at the United Nations, private donors can more easily avoid dealing with corrupt or wasteful governments. They can go directly into the field, working with local villages and grass-roots organizations...Wheat for Africa must be grown in America, although aid experts say this often depresses local African markets, reducing the incentive for farmers there to produce more.
Peter Singer
professor of bioethics
Center for Human Values
Princeton
New York Times
December 17, 2006](Fair%20Trading%20Company_files/shapeimage_4.png)
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Countries w/ % of population living on less than $1/day
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Developing Countries
does not include least developed nations
![[T]he point ... is to promote human evolution by looking at the construction of reality. In this way, we might move toward a “new synthesis of the world that can be.
Cooperrider and Srivastva
on Appreciative Inquiry](Fair%20Trading%20Company_files/shapeimage_13.png)
