IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-52250-3_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Introduction

In: International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World

Author

Listed:
  • Frederick Bird
  • Stewart W. Herman

Abstract

As key players in globalization, international businesses have interconnected the wealthy and impoverished areas of the world. An increasing number of firms from industrialized areas are engaged in the two-thirds world, to extract valued minerals and petroleum, to manufacture goods, to purchase products and produce from local suppliers, and to sell consumer products and services. The results have been ambiguous; in many cases, low-income people in the two-thirds world now live somewhat less impoverished lives. A positive outcome, however, is not automatic. In other settings, international businesses operations have aggravated the poverty of the poor. Either way, business operations merit close examination. Industrialized countries invest far more wealth in developing areas through business connections than through aid programmes. It therefore matters a great deal what kinds of practices international businesses follow.

Suggested Citation

  • Frederick Bird & Stewart W. Herman, 2004. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frederick Bird & Stewart W. Herman (ed.), International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World, pages 1-13, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52250-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230522503_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52250-3_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.