{"id":37,"date":"2005-03-03T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T20:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/03\/interview-with-director-of-corpora"},"modified":"2005-03-03T16:04:59","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T20:04:59","slug":"interview-with-director-of-corporate-sustainable-development-of-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/03\/interview-with-director-of-corporate-sustainable-development-of-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Director of Corporate Sustainable Development of Procter &amp; Gamble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a50'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, the Wall Street Journal and the<br \/>\nHeritage Foundation publish the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.developmentgateway.org\/trade\/rc\/ItemDetail.do%7E1028381\">Economic<br \/>\nFreedom Index<\/a>. It is all about good governance. They plot every country in<br \/>\nthe world, and there is a perfect curve between governance and economic<br \/>\nperformance&#8230;if governments don&#x2019;t play their role in creating the foundation of<br \/>\ngood governance, I don&#x2019;t think we can create the market solution.<\/p>\n<p>Two<br \/>\nother observations from this conference if I may; profit was not a dirty word.<br \/>\nAnd it is in many UN forums and others with campaigning NGOs. They seem to be<br \/>\nalmost afraid of a relationship with business, and profit is dirty somehow. The<br \/>\nother thing that struck me is, if we succeed in bringing the least developed<br \/>\ncountries out of poverty, and you look back in history, I think you will find<br \/>\nthat there was a very unique relationship that developed between the private<br \/>\nsector, NGOs and national governments that made it all possible. I am not sure<br \/>\nhow much the UN plays a role in that though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation publish the Economic Freedom Index. It is all about good governance. They plot every country in the world, and there is a perfect curve between governance and economic performance&#8230;if governments don&#x2019;t play their role in creating the foundation of good governance, I don&#x2019;t think we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multinational-corporate-responsibility"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}