Business and the Millennium Development Goals: Your call to action

摘要: The MDGs were adopted in the context of increasing global insecurity, and poverty was perceived as a key factor fuelling it. role business, albeit important, seen no more than complementary to obligation international community meet Goals. Consequently, private sector called upon primarily ‘make available benefits new technologies, especially information communications’. Recent crises – rising food prices, climate change, credit crunch, social unrest point markedly different relationship between businesses MDGs. Many companies are inextricably linked with these various problems, able either exacerbate or relieve them. Businesses longer merely efforts They instrumental their achievement.