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Economy of scale. You make little from a large population. Or you can go Nestle level evil and straight out exploit the most in need [1]. Plenty of ways for BigCo to make money of developing nations.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestlé_Inf...

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> Plenty of ways for BigCo to make money of developing nations.

Making some money sure, but developing nations are not great consumer markets and BigCo isn’t making a big chunk of its profit there. It ought to be possible for BigCo to be made to accept the loss of a market they probably would neglect anyway (especially pharma) in exchange for R&D funding to give legal clearance for other organizations to serve those populations.

Agree. See also: Suez Environnement

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