Jo-Anna Russon

Multinationals, Poverty Alleviation and UK Aid

The Complex Quest for Mutually Beneficial Outcomes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the relationship between the private sector, UK official development aid (ODA) and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book will interest researchers from business management, development studies and political science, as well as to practitioners with an interest in the role of the private sector in ODA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781032170206
• ISBN-10: 1032170204
• Artikelnr.: 69114955

Autorenporträt

Jo-Anna Russon is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. Her research focuses on the relationship between the private sector and international development, particularly in the context of UK foreign aid. Her research to date has focused primarily on multinational corporations and corporate social responsibility in sub-Saharan Africa, and technical and vocational education in South Africa and Uganda. More recent research focuses on consultants and contractors in UK aid, and cash transfers for community-led skills development in Uganda.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Multinationals and the UK mutual prosperity agenda 2: Bilateral ODA and
the private sector: approaches and modalities 3: Theorising the
MNC-donor-development relationship 4: UK ODA and the private sector 5:
GlaxoSmithKline plc and UK ODA in Kenya and Nigeria 6: Barclays plc and UK
ODA in Tanzania and Zambia 7: AB InBev and UK ODA in Mozambique and South
Africa 8: MNCs and ODA alignment: a CSR perspective 9: The CSR-ODA nexus:
poverty reduction and mutually beneficial outcomes 10: Summary and closing
remarks