Foreign firms' biggest impact in developing nations may not be the jobs they create or money they pay out but the products they make

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

Vodacom for example provides services from texting to mobile banking in Africa. A mobile phone gets people money in emergencies now.

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

Sorry I mean Vodafone not Vodacom.. LOL

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

Unilever through it's flagship product Lifebouy soap, ran an 18,000 village campaign in India to educate and encourage people to wash hands

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

Does Unilever make a lot of money from selling soap in India? Yes. But it's also doing a lot of good to eradicate the risk of diarrhoea

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

GlaxoSmithKline is testing a malaria vaccine in 7 African countries. They also donated more than 2.6 billion albendazole treatments

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

Competition creates markets in ways foreign aid just can't.

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

When a bar of hand soap does much to improve income growth, lower child mortality and improve adult health in India.

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

So get an MBA then go work for such faceless corporations then you can really say “I work in development”

— sure nazareth(@iFortknox) June 26, 2012

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