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Fighting hunger with investments
International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, Poverty and Hunger
Christian Friis BachInternational DirectorDanChurchAid
Increasing investment flows
Source: World Investment Report, UNCTAD, 1995, 2005
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1997
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2004
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WorldDeveloping countries
Investment regimes
Kilde: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2003.
Investment agreements
Source: UNCTAD (1999): Bilateral Investment Treaties, 1959-1999. Geneva and UNCTAD (2004, 2005): World Investment Report.
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1959 1969 1979 1989 1999 2003 2004
Inequality and investments
Source: World Bank (2006): World Development Report
1% economic growth:
Equal societies: Poverty drops by around 4 percentage points
Unequal societies: Almost no effect
CSR, poverty and hunger
Share in world exports of manufactures
Share in world manufacturing value added
1980 1997 1980 1997
Developed countries 82,3 70,9 64,5 73,3
Developing countries 10,6 26,5 16,6 23,8
Source: UNCTAD (2002): World Investment Report.
Fewer rules Fiercer competition Lower taxes
Corporate Social Responsibility increasingly important
CSR policies amongst Danish companies
Have a CSR policy
Lack a CSR policy
Coverage of poverty and/or hunger3)
Coverage of environment
Coverage of working conditions
Discrimi-nation
Community support
Corporations answering the questionnaire (12)
10 2 4 10 10 7 5
Corporations not answering the questionnaire (22)
151) 72) 0 14 8 4 4
Total 25 9 4 24 18 11 9
1)If CSR, ethical guidelines or text regarding social behaviour was presented on the webpage; this was registered as having a CSR policy.2)There was no evidence of CSR or ethical guidelines presented on the webpage.3)Coverage of poverty/hunger is based on the questionnaire question about considerations of these issues. For those firms analysed through their webpage, the result is based on text referring to poverty or hunger.
CSR, poverty and hunger
Corporations indicating ‘yes’ to the following questions
Have a CSR policy 10
Impact on poverty and hunger 11
Coverage of environment 10
Coverage of working conditions 10
Coverage of community support 4
Monitoring of CSR implementation 9
Consideration of poverty and hunger 4
Consideration of access to water 3
Consideration of access to land 2
Consideration of discrimination 7
Consideration of production policy 9
Fighting hunger with investments
The effects of investments on access to water The effects of investment on access to land for people living in the area The use of local workers, non-discrimination policies and the use of affirmative
action towards socially excluded groups in the community The use of local materials and input. The flow of corporate capital and taxation The options for transfers of technology and knowledge
To maximise the impact off investments on fighting hunger and poverty CSR policies need to take into account:
The total effect of investments on poverty and hunger