Titlebook: International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World; Case Studies on Glob Frederick Bird (Research Chair in Comp

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,A Short Economic History of Vietnam, 1945–1986,70 per cent of its population still fell under the poverty line. Another decade later, however, its per capita income climbed to more than US$400, and the Vietnamese government claims that the percentage of people beneath the poverty line was halved, to 32 per cent.

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From Seed to Leaf: British American Tobacco and Supplier Relations in Uganda,tion grew by 59 per cent between 1975 and 1997, with most of this increase occurring in developing countries. Between 1960 and 1989, the world price for flue-cured tobacco declined in real terms by about 1.1 per cent to 1.7 per cent per year. Between 1985 and 2000 the price per ton fell 37 per cent from US$1950 to US$1221.

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The Raglan Mine and Nunavik Inuit,lan Mine in northern Quebec provides a contrasting example, in that it has been developed so far with the full cooperation of the Nunavik Inuit, the local indigenous people — and (so it seems) to their benefit.

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Book 2004s those of the areas in which they operate. A team of more than two dozen researchers from the developed and developing countries conducted the research on which the essays on this and subsequent volumes are based. Dr Frederick Bird from Concordia University in Montreal directed the overall research project.

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Wealth and Poverty in the Niger Delta: A Study of the Experiences of Shell in Nigeria,ignificantly diminished. Per capita income for Nigerians in 2002 was US$260, less than at independence. Economic analyst Sarah Khan (1994) has called the history of the oil industry in Nigeria ‘one of missed opportunities, administrative disorganization and resource mismanagement’ (p. 2).