No, not at all.
Let me give an example of another company that pays no taxes in Africa. A study was recently done on SABMiller, which is a beer company. It has a number of factories around the world. A study of its activities in Ghana demonstrated that SABMiller reported no profits and paid no taxes in Ghana. This is despite the fact that it is a huge and successful business. How did it do it? It charged a royalty fee for the use of its brand names, which was extraordinarily large. It also charged a management fee to its subsidiary, and that money went to an entity that had no management inputs whatsoever. It was simply two mechanisms by which SABMiller reduced the profits of its entity and showed nothing.
I have no problem with a corporation paying dividends abroad. That's certainly to be understood. What I have a problem with is the use of mechanisms such as I have described to make either no profits or minimal profits or to indeed to have losses, while at the same time, vast amounts of money are shifted out of the continent. That is problematic, and that is the situation we address that needs to be changed.
To the second part of your question, I don't know how private corporations can contribute very much to the development of the legal structure within a country. Yes, they can encourage the development of the legal structure. But in the final analysis, it's not their function; it is the function of government-to-government exchanges.
Corporations run the risk of getting into trouble when their goals go too far beyond their responsibility to produce a product and make a profit. Now, there are some exceptions to that. During the apartheid days in South Africa, a number of corporations did encourage the government to move toward majority rule. In the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, many corporations set up their own health systems to help their employees last more than a year or two on the job. But those are things upon which you can attribute a cost-benefit analysis as a corporation.
There are some things that can be done, but I think all of the things corporations do have to be analyzed within that framework: what are the costs and what are the benefits to our primary mission, which is to produce a product and make a profit?