Print magazine: September 2008

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  We need business to help finish the job

  Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General at UNDP, explains the sets the scene for the special report on the Millenium Development Goals

  Success is not an aim, it is a moral duty

  Editor Roderick Crawford makes the moral case for us all to put the MDGs at the top of our agenda

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  Teamwork wins the day in Africa

  Paul Skinner, chairman of Rio Tinto, argues that business has a vital role to play in partnership with governments to deliver the sustainable economic growth upon which the delivery of the Millennium Development Goals depends

  What must be done if we really mean business

  Dave Prescott and Jane Nelson of the International Business Leaders Forum present a framework for action on the MDGs.

  Public Sector-Private Sector Policy Dialogue Can Benefit Poor

  Presenting successful examples, David Wheeler and Sahba Sobhani ask business and government to rise to the complex information management challenge that meeting the MDGs presents

  Horses for courses: what works in the market

  The authors of The Next Four Billion from the World Resources Insitute and the International Finance Corporation explain why knowing your market is vital when doing business with the poor

  Creating Value for All

  Bruce Jenks and Jean-Michel Severino show how big business has discovered that in helping the poor of this world both they and their customers can end up better off

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  Development could be much more effective if we started to think outside of the box

  Rosalind Eyben, fellow of the UK Institute of Development Studies, argues for new ways of thinking about aid with a focus on relational power

  Half-way to what?

  Eight years ago we could never have imagined what the world would be like today, says Andy Sumner, fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. So how can we know what it will be like in 2015?

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  How Uncle Sam could become a world champion

  Jane Nelson believes for the US to fulfil its potential it must become a champion of the MDGs

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  Learning to live again

  Vicki Leach explains the work that O2 is doing in its commitment to the MDGs

  When the poor can't pay but there's still a profit

  Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund explains how using patient capital allow companies to serve the needs of all

  When a mobile can also mean a bank

  Suzi Soza presents examples from the financial sector of companies exploiting new technology to create access for the poorest

  Helping the hungry poor to feed themselves

  Lisa Dreier of the World Economic Forum explains how business can help to reduce hunger and poverty

  Ten of the best

  Roderick Crawford reports on the winners of the 2008 World Business and Development Awards

  The field day beckoning the money markets

  Beth Jenkins shows how mobile finance can unlock new markets, increasing profit and driving through the MDGs.

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