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The goal of the SBC is to transform
debate at international policy fora and promote practical action
for equitable and sustainable development. SBC Members are an important
new voice and a major new constituency. They mark the emergence
of a powerful economic force for progressive change in developing
countries. Politicians and policy-makers, everywhere, should take
note: - this is a network with a mission.
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Business has a key role to play in
sustainable development. Agenda 21, the Rio Earth
Summit's Global Action Plan, devotes an entire chapter to the role
of business and industry. Southern business, in particular, has
a crucial though much overlooked role to play. A powerful engine
of development, progressive Southern business has been overwhelmingly
absent in international policy discussions. It is the missing link.
The force that can propel developing and developed country decision-makers,
in partnership with civil society actors, to undertake reforms in
the direction of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
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