Business is not the bad guy. Then again, sometimes it is.
From Wagner’s Conflict, Security and Development Series: Fall 2012.
By Ashley Nichole Kolaya
AT NYU WAGNER, WE SPEND a lot of time discussing topics like urbanization, infrastructure, social policy, and citizen security. We usually leave the business talk to the folks at Stern. Eduardo Moncada of Rutgers University (and formerly of Wagner) would say that omission is exactly our problem.
Latin America has two unique distinctions in the world of geopolitical statistics: first, it is the most urbanized region in the world. Second, it is the most violent. Organizations like the UNDP and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme release flurries of reports about these topics on an annual basis. What we don’t hear about, however, is the role that business plays in all of these development concerns. Eduardo Moncada is on a mission to change that…
Read more at: http://wagner.nyu.edu/blog/business-is-not-the-bad-guy-then-again-sometimes-it-is/
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