Web exercise 03

The following websites offer useful information and links on the often complex relationship business has with poverty, especially in developing countries:

ELDIS – www.eldis.org
A rich resource of materials about social and economic development worldwide. There is a special section on corporate responsibility, but it is well worth spending time exploring the rest of the site.

Earth Institute - www.earth.columbia.edu
The home of influential development economist Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty (his 2007 Reith Lectures on global poverty are available from the BBC website). There is a heated debate between Sachs and fellow economist, William Easterly (author of The White Man’s Burden), that is partly about the role of private enterprise.

World Bank - www.worldbank.org
Not only is this the homepage of one of the most important (and criticized) organizations in tackling poverty, it is a useful portal to what is happening to address poverty globally.

Skoll Foundation - www.skoll.org
Social entrepreneurship has attracted a lot of attention from the business world. This is the foundation set up by eBay entrepreneur, Jeff Skoll, and is a useful starting point for anyone wanting to find out what is happening in this field.

Oxford University Press, Online Resource Centre, Web exercise 03.

Web exercise 03