Cambodia

"I knew nothing about Jan Stenbeck’s extensive mobile phone business in the third world, a knowledge gap I shared with most Swedish journalists at the time. The financial journalists who should have had good chances to know about them, chose not to attach great emphasis to them - which only shows that when it came to Stenbeck, ordinary values did not apply. (Imagine if Ericsson or any company from the Wallenberg sphere had started and run mobile phone companies in twenty developing countries, including Vietnam and Cambodia, during the nineties. I believe we would have read many reports about it.)"

"H&M also emphasizes that by its presence in, for example, Cambodia and Bangladesh, it contributes to women entering the workforce. Often, it is young women from rural areas who completely lack education and who can neither read nor write who get jobs. Jobs that provide them with a salary and the chance to be lifted out of poverty and become independent. "In both countries, more women than men work for the clothing manufacturers, which is significant since job opportunities are generally worse for women than for men in these countries," H&M wrote themselves in an email to the media.[128](private://read/01jas9tvg84jycb27616w1f9k8/#note-128)"

"Gibbs was also fascinated by the question of happiness. As he had grown wealthy through the 1980s and particularly after the Telecom deal, he’d noticed many people assuming that the money must have made him happier. It hadn’t particularly. He’d derived great satisfaction from his achievements in his chosen field — successfully completing big deals — but beyond a certain point more money didn’t equate to greater happiness. For many years he’d been quietly testing some of the fundamental assumptions that underpinned modern social activism: that normal folk wanted the lives of their idols, that the old and infirm wanted to be young again and that the lives of the poor would be transformed if they had more money. When meeting new people, whether at his home in Auckland, in a Moscow taxi, or by the side of the road in Cambodia, Gibbs would ask them three questions."