About the Author:
J. Madeley has been a writer and broadcaster specializing in Third World development and environmental issues for the past twenty years. He has written for the Observer, the Financial Times and the Sunday Independent.
Review:
'At last - a lucid account of how multinational corporations which should be accountable are destroying the lives of the world's poor. Read it, and understand how we can regain control over the powerful forces that are shaping our future.' Barry Coates, Director, World Development Movement 'A searing indictment of contemporary corporate plunder, this book constructs an airtight case for international regulation of TNCs' Walden Bello 'Authoritative and highly readable. Madeley names the names and tells the stories to provide a clear answer to those who cling to the myth that foreign investment, transnational corporations, the IMF, the World Bank and UNDP are an answer to the prayers of the poor. An excellent book that should be read by everyone committed to ending global poverty.' David C. Korten 'Readable and persuasive?. A timely and cogent examination of transnational corporations, the engines that drive globalization.' New Internationalist 'An excellent book' African Farming 'A readable account of the increasing power of big businesses' Christian Aid News 'A sober and factual survey of a world economy dominated by big transnational corporations.' Socialist Review 'A grim account of exploitation and neglect.' Church Times 'A useful introductory critique of corporate involvement in developing countries .. [which] leaves readers knowing they have a lot of work ahead.' Multinational Monitor 'John Madeley produces the evidence which show that TNCs are not working to benefit developing countries? A very easy, but disturbing, read.' International Agricultural Development 'Readers will be spurred to use their voices as consumers, investors and voters to resist the monopoly power of the new 'global apartheid', a system which sucks the labour out of people and discards the skins.' Canon Christopher Hall, One World in The Door 'Brings much useful information together [and] asks many fundamental questions.' African Book Centre Book Review
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