Business and foundations need more involvement in development policy, says IDS - Civil Society - Fundraising - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits:The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) argues that corporations as well as foundations need a place at the table as the world looks to set out a new development framework post-Millennium Development Goals.
In a briefing paper released yesterday, on the first day of the UN Development Cooperation Forum being held in New York, the Institute says that businesses in particular – which in 2010 made $514.3bn in direct investment to developing countries, according to the report – need to engage in improving the governance of the countries they operate in.
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