Top companies join poverty fight (BBC)

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By Tim Weber
Business editor, BBC News website, in Davos

Some of the world largest firms will join a "public-private partnership" to help the United Nations achieve its Millennium Development Goals.

They called on all companies to help the "bottom one billion people" living on less than one dollar a day.

Companies can pledge their specific contribution at a London summit in May, said UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

However, campaigner and rockstar Bono warned that pledges would not be enough and that a binding contract was needed.

"Then the world can get a good lawyer and haul us to court if we fail," he said.
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