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