Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction : a case study of Unilever in Indonesia
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Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction : a case study of Unilever in Indonesia
Oxfam GB, 2005
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-120)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Foreign direct investment is recognised to be important for economic development, in terms of wealth creation, employment, skills development, and technology transfer. But there is an on-going debate about the extent to which these contributions translate into real benefits for people living in poverty. In an attempt to evaluate the impacts of international business on people living in poverty, two organisations with very different aims and perspectives - Unilever (a major company operating in some of the poorest countries in the world) and Oxfam (an international development and humanitarian organisation) - collaborated on an ambitious research project. The research considered the impacts of Unilever Indonesia across the entire business value chain, from producers and suppliers, through the company's core business operations, to its distributors, retailers, and consumers. This report presents the findings of the research.
It is a contribution to the debates among the wider business community, governments, civil-society organisations, and academics who seek to understand how the wealth, employment, and products that a large company creates could bring increased benefits to people living in poverty.
Table of Contents
- Acroynyms and abbreviations
- Foreword: Oxfam
- Foreword: Unilever
- Executive summary
- 1 Introduction
- Why Oxfam and Unilever began this project
- What is this research about? Methodology
- The context of the research project
- Assessing the impact of Unilever Indonesia
- 2 The impacts of Unilever Indonesia at the macro-economic level
- Setting the context: the 1997-98 financial crisis
- Unilever's organisation and recent performance in Indonesia
- UI's response to the financial crisis
- Key insights
- 3 The employment impacts of Unilever Indonesia
- Employment in Indonesia
- UI's employment impacts
- Key insights
- 4 The value chain from supply to distribution
- Supplier companies
- Producers of raw materials
- Kecap Bango Sweet Soy Sauce: from farm to fork
- The distribution chain
- Supporting employment and value generation in UI's value chain
- Key insights
- 5 Low-income consumers in the marketplace
- The fast-moving consumer-goods (FMCG) market in Indonesia
- What exactly does UI sell? Who buys UI products? Access to UI products
- Why do people buy UI products? The concept of brands
- The role of promotion and advertising
- Meeting or creating needs? Key insights
- 6 UI's wider impact in the community
- Corporate community involvement
- UI's influence on the business sector and government
- Key insights
- 7 Conclusions
- Content: lessons learned from the research project
- Process and partnership: lessons learned from working together
- Feedback from external reference group
- The way forward
- Notes
- References and sources
- Appendices
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