Working with Least Developed (and Post-Conflict) Countries
Developed, emerging and least developed countries (LDCs) need one another more than ever before, and with new game rules. Not only to widen marketability, but also to create mutually beneficial systems of interdependence. Both global players and local agencies know this. The question is how: how, as enterprises of the richer hemisphere, can we do business in a way that addresses the need and desire of LDCs to join liberalized processes and gradually transcend poverty, social exclusion and conflict? Answers to this question must provide alternatives to the “liberal versus Marxist dilemma” found in most approaches to international development. The private sector is crucial to the implementation of answers.
This program is a specialized, in-depth seminar in the frame of intercultural management for business developers in poor economies. It addresses the causes and effects of poverty and conflict in regions where global players seek to implant their processes. Presentations, case studies and discussions focus on populations and economies that have remained depressed. Systemic causes are pegged against the opportunities of collaborative business models that are part of the suggested route towards a healthier balance between global homogenization, local growth and sustainability.
