28 Dec 2010 02:05:45
For instance, working papers the Congress of South African Trade Unions prepared for a recent policymaking session with the ANC declared the source of corruption "is, and has always been, the capitalist system."
No wonder Ann Bernstein, who heads a conservative Johannesburg think tank, was moved to write "The Case for Business in Developing Economies."
Bernstein presents herself as a hardheaded realist focused on getting the job of development done. In a style that is forceful, lively and not without humor, she takes on figures like leftist, anti-globalization writer Naomi Klein and the international pressure groups known as non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, that have pushed global business to pursue good along with profits.
Bernstein may spend too much of her 372-page book defining and blasting the enemy rather than developing her thesis. It's 142 pages before we get to Part 2: "Business is good for society and essential for sustainable development," and that's where her work gets most interesting and nuanced.
Success in business, she writes, "generates the profits and growth which enable governments and companies to transform barren landscape into a thriving city, to change the future of a hitherto poor country, to modernize individuals and societies."
No wonder Ann Bernstein, who heads a conservative Johannesburg think tank, was moved to write "The Case for Business in Developing Economies."
Bernstein presents herself as a hardheaded realist focused on getting the job of development done. In a style that is forceful, lively and not without humor, she takes on figures like leftist, anti-globalization writer Naomi Klein and the international pressure groups known as non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, that have pushed global business to pursue good along with profits.
Bernstein may spend too much of her 372-page book defining and blasting the enemy rather than developing her thesis. It's 142 pages before we get to Part 2: "Business is good for society and essential for sustainable development," and that's where her work gets most interesting and nuanced.
Success in business, she writes, "generates the profits and growth which enable governments and companies to transform barren landscape into a thriving city, to change the future of a hitherto poor country, to modernize individuals and societies."
