Health, potable water, malnutrition

Some of the major concerns businesses face in a developing nation have to include these elements. Malnutrition, in addition to the huge costs it has on society from a medical standpoint, cascades throughout the society in terms of people who will not be able to hold a job in a country depending on manual labor for its economic base - and that is what developing countries require. They do not need massive factories using CAD/CAM systems, they need to put people, a lot of them, to work. The cascading effects adds to the physical problems because some have had so little brain nutrition that they may be untrainable for relatively simple tasks. Here is a good look at this topic from the New York Times. I recollect a WHO study on the stunting effects of sugar on mental development from a long time ago concerning the poor children of Mexico saying, essntially, that after so many years of sugar-based diets, the children's lack of mental development would make them untrainable except for the lowest of low-skilled jobs. Need to find that one again.