Africa: Promoting Social And Economic Justice For All

Also significant is that, in both the North and South, the private wealth of corporations is generated through access to the environmental commons and the natural resources they contain, through public subsidies, through infrastructure such as roads, bridges, seaports and airports. The corporations have access to a publicly-educated workforce and to publicly-funded social services, without having to make a fair contribution to governments' tax revenue for the public good and to protect the environment from which they draw their wealth
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