The potential of Corporate Social Responsibility to eradicate poverty: an ongoing debate

This article critically assesses the assumption that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an effective tool for poverty eradication. It highlights significant challenges, including divergent understandings and implementations of CSR, and a lack of clarity regarding underlying ideological bases concerning business and poverty. The authors argue that despite being often considered ideologically neutral, the CSR discourse requires the introduction of ideological debate to truly meet the goal of poverty eradication, suggesting a deeper engagement with its philosophical underpinnings.