Report by WBCSD notes increasing reliance on business as a partner with government and NGOs in sustainable development in developing countries.
World population is expected to level off at nine billion within the next fifty years or so. By 2050, 85% of the population will live in what are now considered developing countries.
Almost half of the world's population survives on the equivalent of less than $2 a day. And the gap between rich and poor countries continues to widen; the richest 20% of the world's population control three-quarters of the world's wealth, while the poorest 20% control just 2%.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) , a global association of 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development, has produced a report that sees in such dire statistics an opportunity to do business in new ways.
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