Authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights and dire environmental practices have been abusing the UN sustainable development goals to secure foreign direct investment.
This is the claim made by the Human Rights Foundation after years of research into some of the least democratic regimes where, despite known issues, foreign investment has been growing.
On this latest Margin Notes podcast, one of the report’s authors, Sergei Korotkov, an international legal associate with the Human Rights Foundation, talks about why it should matter to investors that these emerging markets countries are finding loopholes or paying mere lip service to sustainability.
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