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Article Title:	Multinational Companies: Friend or Foe?
Author of reported comment:	Dr. P. Opoku-Mensah
Comment Date:	18:01 on Oct 31 2007
Comment:	The question of the MNCs and their activities is a complex one. As you indicate, we need their investments. But at the same time they are driven primarily by profit, which is not necessarily bad. The problem is ensuring that the destructive aspects of their activities are minimised. It seems to me that in addition to the MNCs voluntarily changing their practices---which we cannot take for granted they will--- another approach is to create states and civil society in Africa that are able to set the ground rules, or at the very least, monitor the activities of MNCs. In most of the African countries where MNCs operate with impunity, they do so with the connivance of state officials, or the state structures and civil society are simply too weak to offer any resistance.

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