Ann Bernstein - Why business should stop apologising PART TWO

According to Ann Bernstein, the ongoing conversation about business and society is dominated by the perspectives and interests of activists who live in rich countries. Most of these protagonists do not grasp the realities of poverty and the hard choices of development outside the rich industrialised world. As a result the debate about business, "responsibility" and corporate involvement in development is distorted, with few voices from developing countries being heard.

Speaking at a GIBS-Tshikululu Social Investments Development Intelligence Series breakfast, Bernstein urged business to find the confidence and strategic vision to stop apologising, develop its own public agenda and start propagating the phenomenal benefits of competitive capitalism for the less developed countries of the world.

This is Part Two of a discussion between Bernstein and Bruce Whitfield detailing her views on the subject.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• business
• development
• capitalism
• Tshikululu Social Investments
• corporate social investment