For the World’s Profit: How Business Can Support Sustainable Development
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This book argues that the world is at a key juncture for considering how the targeted pursuit of business profits can better add up to the world’s profit, broadly defined.
The edited volume brings together a remarkable array of distinguished corporate, investor, government, academic, and nonprofit perspectives to reflect on the issues. The authors tackle such questions as how businesses can work more effectively with governments, financial institutions, and civil society to mitigate their own enterprise risk alongside risks to people and planet; how private resources, innovation, and networks can be mobilized to create value in solving major social and environmental challenges; and what types of accountability structures are needed to set boundaries, provide oversight, and create positive incentives for business performance.
Their perspectives offer insights into how sustainability can be introduced into business practices, finance and policymaking in a way that expands market opportunities and accelerates progress toward global sustainable development.
Makino Koji
, Visiting Fellow at the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) and Professor at Kyoto University is one of the editors, while Matsumoto Katsuo, Vice President of JICA, wrote Chapter 11 titled “The Institutionalization of Corporate Contribution to the SDGs in India”, and Sato Ichiro
, Executive Senior Research Fellow and Endo Kei
, Research Fellow at the JICA Ogata Research Institute participated as co-authors of Chapter 13, “How the Business Community Has Embraced Sustainability.”
The book follows the previous collaboration between the Brookings Institution and the JICA Ogata Research Institute, "Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development. "
The book was published by the Brookings Institution Press and is available for free download via the link below.
- Editors
- Homi KHARAS, MAKINO Koji, John McArthur, Jane Nelson
- Date of issuance
- January 2025
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press
- Language
- English
- Topics
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- Research area
- Joint Research
- ISBN
- Hardcover: 9780815741015, Paperback: 9780815741022, ePub: 9780815741046
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