Abstract

VALOR, Carmen. Three perspectives regarding how multinational companies may effectively contribute towards at taining MDG. Innovar [online]. 2009, vol.19, n.33, pp.131-141. ISSN 0121-5051.

This article tries to deal with the following research question, "Can a multinational company contribute towards achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDG) through so-called corporative social responsibility?" The position of the different agents involved was thus analysed: political (especially the United Nations, but also OECD and the European Union), economic (business associations) and social ones (civil society organisations). After reviewing the documents on this particular matter stemming from these organisations, it was concluded that there was a fundamental divergence between economic agents (where the company always makes an effective contribution to MDG) and social ones (generally declaring themselves against it), political agents occupying an intermediate point on the continuum. Such divergences occur on three planes: company motivation for eradicating poverty, how this is done and the role of a company's social responsibility.

Keywords : Millennium Development Goals; company; poverty; corporate social responsibility.

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