United States and Ethical business
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- CSR in the US: activities and attitudes
- Government Accountability Office, US Congress, 2005
- This report examines trends and issues in Corporate Social Responsibility in the US. It describes federal agency policies and programs relating to global CSR as well as different perspectives regarding the appropriate U.S. government ...
- Internal controls in producer, trading and importing countries
- Global Witness, 2004
- The paper offers seven country case studies on internal controls under the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). The countries examined in this paper are producer, trader as well as importer countries (Republic of Congo, Ghana...
- Can you trust the labels?
- Consumers International Office for Developed and Transition Economies, London, 2004
- The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the green food claims that producers make on consumer packaging to assess whether they are valid, independently accredited, and enable consumers to make more sustainable food choices. ...
- What are the governance challenges of reconstructing Iraq?
- Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2003
- The military victory in Iraq has given rise to the challenge of rebuilding the country and delivering on President Bush’s promise of a free and democratic future for the Iraqi people. Yet post-war reconstruction and transition to...
- Natural disasters: the business of Asian business?
- John Twigg / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Should the private sector in developing countries get involved in natural disaster reduction? How could businesses be encouraged to move beyond providing support to relief efforts by taking up disaster preparedness instead? How transf...
- What can be done to modify strategies for the present day labour movements?
- A.V. Jose / International Labour Organization, 2002
- This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countr...
- FOE calls on Shell to live up to its sustainability claims
- L. Rimmer / Friends of the Earth, 2003
- This campaign document presents itself as an alternative to Shell's own sustainability report. It commends the company's efforts and policies towards greater social and environemntal sustainability but argues that it has not gone far ...
- Business, NGOs and the media interacting as partners in USA development
- C. Johnson / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The prospect that a new civic approach is the underlying explanation for reports of progress in the U.S. is the theme explored in this paper. The author maintains that previously controlling institutions are carving out new roles as c...
- Business culture to blame for lack of US interest in CSR
- S. A. Aaronson; J. Reeves / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2002
- This paper stresses that European firms may pose a threat to US multinationals in the future due to the fact that many have embraced corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a rationale to guide their business practices. In addition, ...
- Why mining is bad for economic growth in developing countries
- T. M. Power / Oxfam, 2002
- This paper focuses on the role played by mining in the economic development of the US, Canada and Australia and the potential for the replication of this “success” in developing countries today. The author's conclusions pres...
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