The Wire

A Poverty Alleviation and Profitability roundtable discussion at the University of Sydney’s Business School today discussed whether or not big businesses could play a role in alleviating poverty and still make a profit.

Business and marketing professionals, academics, non-profit workers and government representatives all attended the roundtable to look at the challenges businesses face when they try to make a profit and alleviate poverty simultaneously, and how those challenges can be fixed.But it raised the question, just how ethical is it to make money off the poorest members of society?