Josh Mailman, co-founder, the Threshold Foundation, the Social Venture Network and Business for Social Responsibility, commenting on US author John Perkinsâ best seller, âConfessions of an Economic Hitmanâ wrote the following:
âA fascinating insiderâs view of how private multinational companies legally rob the poor of the Third World, country after countryâ¦â
John Perkins had worked for years as a consultant with an American company, MAINS, doing stints in Latin America and Asia. And his key function was to prepare development models for Third World countries that would ultimately benefit predatory corporate interests rather than the people it would claim to help.