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Parliamentary BriefA Special Report in association with the United Nations Development ProgrammeIn Brief Vol.ContributorsPaul Skinner, chairman of Rio Tinto,and chairman of the CommonwealthBusiness Council.Jane Nelson. a senior fellow anddirector of the Corporate ResponsibilityInitiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School.Dave Prescott, freelance writer specialisingin social issues at the interfacebetween large firms and internationaldevelopment.David Wheeler, Dean of the Facultyof Management at Dalhousie University.Sahba Sobhani, Programme Managerat UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Marketsinitiative.Allen Hammond, William Kramer,Robert Katz, Julia Tran andCourtland Walker, co-authors ofThe Next Four Billion: Market Size andBusiness Strategy at the Base of thePyramid.Bruce Jenks, Assistant SecretaryGeneral and Director, PartnershipBureau, at the United NationsDevelopment Programme.Jean-Michel Severino,Managing Director of the AgenceFrançaise de Développement.Rosalind Eyben, a Fellow at the UKInstitute of Development Studies andformerly Chief Social DevelopmentAdviser for the UK’s Department forInternational Development.Andy Sumner, a Fellow in the Vulnerabilityand Poverty Reduction Team atthe Institute of Development Studies,Sussex, England.Jacqueline Novogratz, the CEO ofAcumen Fund.Suzi Sosa, Chief of Staff of MPOWERLabs Inc.Marcela X Escobari, executive directorof the Center for InternationalDevelopment at Harvard University.Beth Jenkins, Learning Director of theFull Economic Citizenship Initiative atAshoka.Lisa Dreier, Director of Public-PrivatePartnerships at the World EconomicForum.OCTOBER 200812 No. 1 October 20084. FOREWORD5. Teamwork wins the day in AfricaPaul Skinner on why business and government needsto work in partnership to deliver the MDGs7. What must be done if we really mean businessJane Nelson and Dave Prescott9. The Light DawnsDavid Wheeler and Sahba Sobhani11. Horses for Courses. What works in the marketAllen Hammond, William Kramer, Robert Katz,Julia Tran and Courtland Walker13. Doing Well, Doing GoodBruce Jenks and Jean-Michel Severino16. Delivering more by thinking outside the boxRosalind Eyben17. Half-way but to what?Andy Sumner19. How Uncle Sam could become a world championJane Nelson21. Learning to live againTelefonica O2’s campaign to eradicate child labour takes58,000 young children back to school23. When the poor can’t pay but there’s still a profit...Jacqueline Novogratz24. ...And when a mobile can also mean a bankSuzi Sosa & Marcela X Escobari26. The field day beckoning the money marketsBeth Jenkins28. Helping the hungry to feed themselvesLisa DreierPARLIAMENTARY BRIEFTel: +44 (0)20 7381 1611email: editor@parliamentarybrief.com web: www.parliamentarybrief.comPhotos (bottom to top): Adam Rogers/UNCDF, O2, Tiviski, UNICEF/Julie Pudlowski