Sorry, Richard, I'm off to Cambridge for a couple of days; but yours is a
question that I've been meaning to answer for a number of years!
In short: multinationals, and whatever other name we can give them, are both
good and bad. However, I'll give you the low down on my view of them when I
get back from my travels.
How's that for a cliff hanger? Eat your heart out JK Rowling!
Best wishes
Duncan
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From: For teachers and lecturers interested in curriculum issues
affecting the te [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Richard Young
Sent: 04 January 2002 11:46
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Subject: Re: Development - what about TNCs?
Duncan
You never cease to amaze.
One fact that has struck me this time round teaching Development is the role
of TNCs. Are they the bad boys/girls painted in the textbooks?
One indicator is the amount of tax paid by TNCs to LDCs. Is there anyway of
finding some average for the amount of profits paid in corporation tax to
LDCS as a %. My understanding is that TNCs set up complex intra trading
arrangements with off shore branches to ensure that net profit is 0 or
negative!
Moreover the mobility of capital means LDCS compete with each other to offer
incentives for location in their country. Eg tax holidays.
Low tax receipts means government cannot keep a current balance and provide
basic welfare services eg universal free primary education.
So do I boo and hiss every time I read about multinationals, and take to the
streets next time the IMF are in Oxford.
Or have I been reading the Observer for too long?
Regards
Richard Young
Business Studies, Economics & ICT Teacher
Wood Green School
Woodstock Road
Witney OX28 1DX
Tel 01993 702355
Fax 01993 708662
www.woodgreen.oxon.sch.uk
BECTa/Guardian Secondary School Web Site of the Year 2001
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From: For teachers and lecturers interested in curriculum issues
affecting the te [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Duncan Williamson
Sent: 03 January 2166 22:45
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Development
I did a basic web search on some phrases taken from the original phrase of
"development 10 gap" and have come up with a few examples of what I found.
They all point in the same general direction. Please be careful with the web
addresses as they may get chopped as they wing their way over the ether:
they are all valid as at the time I copied and pasted (10:30 pm on 3/1/02)
Duncan Williamson
From: http://www.cihr.ca/partnerships/international/ghri_e.shtml
An enormous discrepancy exists between the magnitude of disease burden in
the world and the allocation of research funding. The discrepancy is now
widely recognized as the "10/90 Gap". Of the approximately $73.5 billion
(USD) invested in health research and development worldwide in 1998, only
10% was allocated to 90% of the world's health problems, which are
concentrated in poor countries. International research organizations, such
as the Global Forum for Health Research, have been engaging health research
funding organizations and researchers worldwide in an attempt to narrow the
10/90 Gap (2).
From:
http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=96310/90 gap
At least US$70 billion is spent annually on global health research by public
and private sectors. But less than 10% of this amount is devoted to
addressing 90% of the total global disease burden, says Louis Currat,
Executive Secretary of the Global Forum for Health Research. This
misallocation of global health research spending has been dubbed the "10/90
gap."
From: http://www.who.int/ina-ngo/ngo/ngo198.htm
To help correct the 10/90 gap (10% of health research funding is allocated
to 90% of the world's health problems) through an improvement in the
allocation of research funds, support of better priority-setting processes
and methodologies, promotion of relevant research, and support for concerted
efforts in health research and dissemination of research findings.
From: http://www.comminit.com/BaseLineArchives/sld-2093.html
At least US$70 billion is spent annually on global health research by public
and private sectors.
But less than 10% of this amount is devoted to addressing 90% of the total
global disease burden.
This misallocation of global health research spending has been dubbed the
"10/90 gap."
-----Original Message-----
From: For teachers and lecturers interested in curriculum issues
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Behalf Of Finbarr Carter
Sent: 03 January 2002 10:37
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Subject: Re: Development
I have to say I did a degree in development studies and the term never came
up. Sorry I can't answer you either but a good contact number might be the
development education association who you can contact on
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best wishes
Finbarr Carter
At 10:46 21/12/2001 -0000, you wrote:
> Anything to do with 10% of world's population owning 90% of wealth?
>Just a guess. ----- Original Message ----- From: frank.ruffoni
>To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, December
>20, 2001 6:22 PM Subject: Development
> A Geography colleague at school asked what a "development 10 gap" was
>re development of LDC's?!! It appeared on a speciman OCR paper. Any
>thoughts?
>
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