Multinational Corporations (MNCs)

MNCs allergic to Third World ills

THIS UNIDO study is an useful data source on the world's pharmaceutical industry and has been used in the World Development Report, 1993. The UNIDO data files on this often secretive industry are

Publication Date:

14/09/1993

Author(s): Kamal Mitra Chinoy

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930915

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Drug Industry, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), UNIDO

Environment

The revolutionary who transformed health care

ZAFRULLAH Chowdhury draws inspiration as much from Hippocrates as from Mao Zedong. To the first, he owes his medical ideals and to the second, his taking up a rifle to fight in Bangladesh's war of liberation in 1971.

Bangladesh owes a lot to Ch

Publication Date:

14/06/1993

Author(s): Amit Mitra

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930615

pp:

0

Tags:

Rural Habitat, Health Care, Drugs, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Bangladesh

Environment

MNCs increase R & D spending in Third World

The UN's World Investment Report 1992 indicates the data available on the geographical distribution of R&D efforts of MNCs shows a growing trend towards internationalisation. A survey of 33 major

Publication Date:

Monday, December 14, 1992

Source: Down to Earth

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Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Research, UN, Developing Countries, Statistics

Environment

UN gives MNCs a clean chit

A recent United Nations report absolves multinationals of the environmentalists' charge of shifting ecologically harmful industries to the South. Earlier, equally prestigious reports, claimed the contrary.

Publication Date:

14/12/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Hazardous Industry, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), UN, Developing Countries

India

Indian farmers can take on the multinationals

Sharad Joshi, the well known, controversial farm leader from Maharashtra, outlines a new strategy for agriculture.

Publication Date:

14/11/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19921115

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Farmers, Women, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), India, Maharashtra

India

Will MNCs displace the domestic industry?

MNCs are virtually shutting out indigenous manufacturers from the urban slice of the telecom pie, but the fault is not entirely theirs.

Publication Date:

14/10/1992

Author(s): Nitya Jacob

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Electronics Industry, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Information

Industry

Bhopal: A prayer for rain

On the night of 3rd December, 1984, Union Carbide tank 610, released 40 tonnes of lethal gas into Bhopal. What followed was the worst industrial disaster in human history. “Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain” is a movie set amidst that disaster. This 2 minute 45 second long trailer of the movie encompasses the horrifying darkness, the immense fear, and the bone chilling hopelessness of that night and the days that followed.