Sustainability Partnerships — An Introduction

Ulrich Steger, Aileen Ionescu-Somers, Oliver Salzmann and Stephanie Mansourian
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Aileen Ionescu-Somers: IMD
Oliver Salzmann: IMD
Stephanie Mansourian: IMD

Chapter 1 in Sustainability Partnerships, 2009, pp 3-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We live in a world of imbalances, or should we simply say contradictions? Twenty per cent of the world’s population accounts for more than 80 per cent of total consumption. Less than 400 billionaires have as much wealth as the poorest 45 per cent of the world’s population. In the developing world, more than 1.2 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than a dollar a day. Fully half of the world’s population lives on less than two dollars a day. The regional distribution of poverty and its resulting negative effects (such as premature deaths and malnutrition) is also imbalanced, with most being centred in the Southern hemisphere where ecosystems are fragile and weather systems unreliable (and, it appears, becoming increasingly so).

Keywords: European Union; Fair Trade; Roll Back Malaria; Climate Group; Partnership Approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230594685_1

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