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Nesa Posted 12 years ago
Business & Finance
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Hi,
What does this paragraph want to say after giving the examples? Particularly in the last part. I got that such programs are not a success but why not?
There is a significant risk in business assuming the role of the social-welfare provider through misguided csr programmes. In the United States, Cisco Systems “adopts” schools that have inadequate funding. In parts of Africa, Unilever helps to distribute condoms through its distribution network to combat the aids crisis. Both are probably well-intentioned programmes to deal with immediate problems. Cisco needs an educated workforce; and most companies operating in Africa are feeling
the impact of the aids crisis. But they represent a more worrying trend, about which both activists and businesses should be concerned: the increased blurring of the lines between public and private, and the abdication of state responsibility to uphold the public good.
Regards,
Nesa
What does this paragraph want to say after giving the examples? Particularly in the last part. I got that such programs are not a success but why not?
There is a significant risk in business assuming the role of the social-welfare provider through misguided csr programmes. In the United States, Cisco Systems “adopts” schools that have inadequate funding. In parts of Africa, Unilever helps to distribute condoms through its distribution network to combat the aids crisis. Both are probably well-intentioned programmes to deal with immediate problems. Cisco needs an educated workforce; and most companies operating in Africa are feeling
the impact of the aids crisis. But they represent a more worrying trend, about which both activists and businesses should be concerned: the increased blurring of the lines between public and private, and the abdication of state responsibility to uphold the public good.
Regards,
Nesa
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Hi, The author does not claim anywhere in the text that these programs are not a succes. the increased blurring of the lines between public and private, and the abdication of state responsibility to uphold the public good Presumably the author wants to point out that it is the government that should assume the primary role of caretaker over its citizens/people, not private companies. - DJB -
- Hi, The author does not claim anywhere in the text that these programs are not a succes.
- the increased blurring of the lines between public and private, and the abdication of state responsibility to uphold the public good Presumably the author wants to point out that it is the government that should assume the primary role of caretaker over its citizens/people, not private companies.
- - DJB -
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Hi,
The author does not claim anywhere in the text that these programs are not a succes.
the increased blurring of the lines between public and private,
and the abdication of state responsibility to uphold the public good
Presumably the author wants to point out that it is the government that should as
The author does not claim anywhere in the text that these programs are not a succes.
the increased blurring of the lines between public and private,
and the abdication of state responsibility to uphold the public good
Presumably the author wants to point out that it is the government that should as
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