Big business, poor peoples : how transnational corporations damage the world's poor /: how transnational corporations damage the world's poor. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Madeley.
• Other Names: Madeley, John
• Contents: Preface to second edition Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Corporate Spread 1. Why Poor Countries 'Want' the Corporations 2. The Agri-corporations: From Production to Trade Seeds 3. Agri-commodities Take Their Toll Tobacco 4. Health: The Poor Take the Corporate Pill 5. Water: The Corporate Tap 6. Tourism: The Great Illusion 7. Extracting Logs and Fish Forests 8. Mining the Poor Culture. The companies 9. Manufactured Goods: Poverty amid the Glitz 10. Energy: No Force for the Poor 11. The Corporate Persuaders 12. Tackling the Power: Regulation, Bypass, Action Conclusion
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 338.8881724; International business enterprises -- Developing countries; International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Developing countries; Poor -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848134959; 1848134959
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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