Big Business, Poor Peoples How Transnational Corporations Damage the World's Poor Madeley, John

Zed Books
Year of publishing: 2008
Place of publishing: London, UK
ISBN: 1848130333
Language: English
Series: Second

Nová aktualizovaná verze této knihy odkrývá, kolik přírodních zdrojů rozvojových zemí je postupováno do rukou nadnárodních korporací, které se nezodpovídají nikomu jinému než svým akcionářům. Autor knihy je toho názoru, že nadnárodní korporace využili svých finančních prostředků a vlivu, aby ovlivnili mezinárodní jednání a že zcela využili přechod k privatizaci k ovlivnění vládní politicky států. Suverenita států je prodána do rukou korporací a chudí za to platí. Avšak lidé se tomuto trendu brání. Občané, pracující a komunity korporace prohlédly a hledají alternativy.

This new and updated edition of Big Business, Poor Peoples exposes how many of the natural resources of developing countries are being ceded to transnational corporations answerable to no one but their shareholders. The author argues that transnational corporations have used their money, size and power to influence international negotiations and that they have taken full advantage of the move towards privatization to influence the policies of governments. Sovereignty, he concludes, is passing into corporate hands and the poor are paying the price. But people are fighting back. Citizens, workers, communities, are exposing the corporations and looking for alternatives.

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Keywords

Development Studies

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