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These are the true “business opportunities” that the SDGs offer. They invite us to address the
question: how can those of us in business contribute to the achievement of these goals as investors,
entrepreneurs and executives? All of us share the need for healthy and stable economies, fair and
well-governed societies, well-regulated value chains in trade, mitigation of climate change, world
peace, and respect for human rights. This volume explores how the private sector can be a powerful
actor in promoting the achievement of such common aims, and where it must exercise restraint. In
this respect, the public good should be both the limiting factor in encouraging those who act in their
own self-interest, and the goal for those who seek to act in the collective interest of society. We must
avoid not only the obvious scourge of corruption in this effort, but the danger of exploitation. We
must seek to not only do more good, but also ask ourselves where we can do less harm.
Given the scale of the problems the world is facing, and the unprecedented levels of global
inequality, these questions are not only important, but urgent. Business must play its part.
Governments and multilateral institutions who steward resources on behalf of us all, must play their
part. Regulators at local, national and international levels must play their part. Collectively we can
mobilise financial resources at historic scales to implement a wide range of development efforts. Butsustainable global progress cannot be achieved through monetary means and investment alone. It is
vital that capacity is strengthened in individuals and in the institutions of civil society to play a vigorous
part in carrying out such a transformation, including the thoughtful regulation of business activity.
I encourage anyone interested in development or business to read this report and to take to heart
the challenges, and the opportunities, that it explores.
George Soros
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