Business Impacts on Millennium Development Goals: A Virtuous Cycle or a Coin Toss?
一项新世界可持续发展报告的新世界商业委员会介绍了企业倡议以减轻贫困，但较少关注业务如何混淆此类目标。威廉·鲍伊（William Baue）
The notion that business plays an important role in alleviating poverty and other United Nations千年发展目标(MDGs), a main topic of discussion today at the U.N.'s2005年世界峰会, has been well established by academics C. K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart. TheWorld Business Council for Sustainable Development(WBCSD), a global coalition of 175 companies committed to sustainability, furthers the case with the recent release of a report on 14 member projects (of 66 in the works) making advances toward achieving the MDGs.
"As world leaders gather in New York to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals, it is becoming increasingly apparent that we are falling far short in meeting these vital targets," states WBCSD's Cécile Churet, lead author of the report entitledBusiness for Development. "[S]trengthening the role of business -- the prime engine of wealth creation -- in development efforts offers a tangible, sustainable opportunity to bolster our efforts to combat poverty."
该简介是一个有力的理由，即“包容性业务”或公司倡议，旨在针对金字塔底部的三十亿人（BOP）（BOP- - 与经济金字塔上的75至1亿特权）相对代表双赢的情况。在满足这个巨大市场的未满足需求时，公司的利润不是通过大笔利润而而是数量。此外，公司正在开发“社会影响”工具，以衡量业务对全世界经营的不利社区的积极影响。
The report also documents increasing movement away from adversarial and toward collaborative relationships between companies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- 13 of the 14 case studies include such partnerships. For example, Proctor & Gamble collaborated withAmeriCaresand theInternational Rescue Committeeto provide enough of its PUR water filters for more than 10 million liters of potable water to Sudanese refugees fleeing the genocidal regime in Darfur to northern Chad.
The report candidly admits some of the critiques of the case for inclusive business, including its environmental implications.
Churet女士允许，“如果我们成功提高了大约三十亿人的生活水平，这无疑会极大地增加对环境的压力，然后快速解释解决方案对这一难题的积极“跨越”的好处。“从一开始，这是一个绝佳的机会，可以从一开始，创新的解决方案和技术来最大程度地减少消费对环境的负面影响。”
确实，确保环境可持续性是八千年发展目标之一，以及发展全球发展的竞彩足球app怎么下载伙伴关系。其他MDG包括降低儿童死亡率，改善孕产妇的健康，促进性别平等和赋予妇女权力，打击艾滋病毒/艾滋病，疟疾和其他疾病，并获得普遍的初等教育。
However, the report is less candid about how business initiatives may advance certain MDGs while simultaneously curtailing others. For example, the report details how BP promotes the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) along its supply chain through an Enterprise Centre it opened in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2002.
"In 2004, BP's direct spend with SMEs, local JVs [joint ventures] and state-owned firms reached $200m, and the company did business with over 200 local SMEs," the profile states.
However, the profile underemphasizes the primary reason BP is in Azerbaijan: to exploit the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, and it completely elides that fact that the project is the subject of persistent and ongoing critiques due to its social and environmental impacts. TheCEE BankWatch Network, an NGO with members from 10 Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, has compiled alaundry listof reports finding fault with the pipeline, for example potential human rights abuses in Turkey and environmental threats to sturgeon stocks in the Caspian Sea.
“该项目引起的环境和社会问题可能在阿塞拜疆，佐治亚州和土耳其，但这些问题是英国政府和英国公司做出决定的结果，”英国地球之友的运动家汉娜·埃利斯（Hannah Ellis）说。就在昨天。“现在是时候让英国政府和BP对他们造成的环境和社会问题承担责任。”
尽管BP可能在阿塞拜疆为中小企业创造好处，但该报告并未将其置于管道造成的社会和环境问题的背景下。
"Business is good for development and development is good for business," the report touts, depicting the two propositions as complementary components in a virtuous cycle.
Or, put differently: "Economic and social development at the bottom of the economic pyramid are the two sides of the same coin," says Prof. C. K. Prahalad, author of seminalThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, of the WBCSD report. "This study highlights both the opportunities and the impediments."
Prof. Prahalad is accurate in stating that the study looks at both opportunities and obstacles, but he assumes that development at the BOP necessarily creates positive social and environmental impacts. Perhaps a better way to visualize the proposition is with the coin as a whole representing economic, social, and environmental development at the bottom of the pyramid. However, one side represents positive advancement towards achievement of Millennium Development Goals, and the other side represents social, environmental, and economic negatives for the BOP.
Flipping the coin, there's an equal chance of landing on either side.
Put differently: the cycle is clearly powerful, but it is not necessarily virtuous.
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This article has been reprinted courtesy ofSocialFunds.com. It was first published on Sept. 14, 2005.
The notion that business plays an important role in alleviating poverty and other United Nations千年发展目标(MDGs), a main topic of discussion today at the U.N.'s2005年世界峰会, has been well established by academics C. K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart. TheWorld Business Council for Sustainable Development(WBCSD), a global coalition of 175 companies committed to sustainability, furthers the case with the recent release of a report on 14 member projects (of 66 in the works) making advances toward achieving the MDGs.
"As world leaders gather in New York to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals, it is becoming increasingly apparent that we are falling far short in meeting these vital targets," states WBCSD's Cécile Churet, lead author of the report entitledBusiness for Development. "[S]trengthening the role of business -- the prime engine of wealth creation -- in development efforts offers a tangible, sustainable opportunity to bolster our efforts to combat poverty."
该简介是一个有力的理由，即“包容性业务”或公司倡议，旨在针对金字塔底部的三十亿人（BOP）（BOP- - 与经济金字塔上的75至1亿特权）相对代表双赢的情况。在满足这个巨大市场的未满足需求时，公司的利润不是通过大笔利润而而是数量。此外，公司正在开发“社会影响”工具，以衡量业务对全世界经营的不利社区的积极影响。
The report also documents increasing movement away from adversarial and toward collaborative relationships between companies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- 13 of the 14 case studies include such partnerships. For example, Proctor & Gamble collaborated withAmeriCaresand theInternational Rescue Committeeto provide enough of its PUR water filters for more than 10 million liters of potable water to Sudanese refugees fleeing the genocidal regime in Darfur to northern Chad.
The report candidly admits some of the critiques of the case for inclusive business, including its environmental implications.
Churet女士允许，“如果我们成功提高了大约三十亿人的生活水平，这无疑会极大地增加对环境的压力，然后快速解释解决方案对这一难题的积极“跨越”的好处。“从一开始，这是一个绝佳的机会，可以从一开始，创新的解决方案和技术来最大程度地减少消费对环境的负面影响。”
确实，确保环境可持续性是八千年发展目标之一，以及发展全球发展的竞彩足球app怎么下载伙伴关系。其他MDG包括降低儿童死亡率，改善孕产妇的健康，促进性别平等和赋予妇女权力，打击艾滋病毒/艾滋病，疟疾和其他疾病，并获得普遍的初等教育。
However, the report is less candid about how business initiatives may advance certain MDGs while simultaneously curtailing others. For example, the report details how BP promotes the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) along its supply chain through an Enterprise Centre it opened in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2002.
"In 2004, BP's direct spend with SMEs, local JVs [joint ventures] and state-owned firms reached $200m, and the company did business with over 200 local SMEs," the profile states.
However, the profile underemphasizes the primary reason BP is in Azerbaijan: to exploit the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, and it completely elides that fact that the project is the subject of persistent and ongoing critiques due to its social and environmental impacts. TheCEE BankWatch Network, an NGO with members from 10 Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, has compiled alaundry listof reports finding fault with the pipeline, for example potential human rights abuses in Turkey and environmental threats to sturgeon stocks in the Caspian Sea.
“该项目引起的环境和社会问题可能在阿塞拜疆，佐治亚州和土耳其，但这些问题是英国政府和英国公司做出决定的结果，”英国地球之友的运动家汉娜·埃利斯（Hannah Ellis）说。就在昨天。“现在是时候让英国政府和BP对他们造成的环境和社会问题承担责任。”
尽管BP可能在阿塞拜疆为中小企业创造好处，但该报告并未将其置于管道造成的社会和环境问题的背景下。
"Business is good for development and development is good for business," the report touts, depicting the two propositions as complementary components in a virtuous cycle.
Or, put differently: "Economic and social development at the bottom of the economic pyramid are the two sides of the same coin," says Prof. C. K. Prahalad, author of seminalThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, of the WBCSD report. "This study highlights both the opportunities and the impediments."
Prof. Prahalad is accurate in stating that the study looks at both opportunities and obstacles, but he assumes that development at the BOP necessarily creates positive social and environmental impacts. Perhaps a better way to visualize the proposition is with the coin as a whole representing economic, social, and environmental development at the bottom of the pyramid. However, one side represents positive advancement towards achievement of Millennium Development Goals, and the other side represents social, environmental, and economic negatives for the BOP.
Flipping the coin, there's an equal chance of landing on either side.
Put differently: the cycle is clearly powerful, but it is not necessarily virtuous.
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This article has been reprinted courtesy ofSocialFunds.com. It was first published on Sept. 14, 2005.