Leading Companies' CSRs harming the poor?
World Growth, a pro-development NGO, says that leading companies are putting the world’s poor at risk with unwise corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs and endangering their capacity to service the fast growing emerging markets.According to a report released by the group last week in London, CSR policies are increasingly driven by social or environmental concerns in Western countries, which can be completely at odds with concerns in emerging markets.
The report reviewed the CSR strategies of nine of the world’s leading retail and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) firms to assess whether their CSR policies supported economic growth and took a ‘do no harm’ approach to the world’s poor. “We are seeing companies such as Unilever, Carrefour and Nestle becoming hostage to the environmental concerns of campaign groups such as Greenpeace and WWF,” said World Growth Chairman Ambassador Alan Oxley.
“Groups like Greenpeace and WWF are campaigning for large firms to drop developing-country suppliers of commodities such as beef, sugar, vegetable oil and paper if they don’t meet WWF standards on forest conservation or biodiversity.” “We assessed the CSR policies of nine companies to see if they were attuned to the interests of emerging market economies and in consideration of the world’s poor; none passed the test.
Suppliers and shareholders should be questioning where the business priorities of these companies lie – in the meeting rooms of environmental activists or growth in markets such as Brazil, Indonesia and China.” The World Growth report, Corporate Social Responsibility - How Global Business is Getting it Wrong in Emerging Markets, is the first step in a program to develop relevant CSR principles in developing economy markets.
World Growth says it hopes to initiate a constructive dialogue with the firms assessed in the report.
World Growth is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established to expand the research, information, advocacy, and other resources to improve the economic conditions and living standards in developing and transitional countries.
World Growth, policies “embrace the age of globalization and the power of free trade to eradicate poverty and create jobs and opportunities.”
It “supports the production of palm oil and the use of forestry as a means to promote economic growth, reduce poverty and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions” and “believes a robust cultivation of palm oil and forestry provides an effective means of environmental stewardship that can serve as the catalyst for increasing social and economic development.
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World Growth, a pro-development NGO, says that leading companies are putting the world's poor at risk with unwise corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs and endangering their capacity to service the fast growing emerging markets.
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