Making business work for development: id21 insights, issue 54

Business is everywhere. Some is crucial to development, while some is implicated in poverty, human rights abuses and environmental destruction. In recent years there has been an upturn in corporations taking responsibility for development challenges. Research shows this is a mixed blessing whilst development practitioners and policy makers could engage more critically to ensure real benefits for development.

Articles included:

• Home-grown CSR needed: Kumar, R,
• Unleashing entrepreneurship: Jenks. B.
• Why AIDS is a workplace issue:  Owens, J.
• Pay your taxes!: Riesco, M.
• Women workers’ voices ignored in Central America: Prieto-Carrón, M.
• Keeping tabs on TNCs: Utting, P.
• Putting partnerships to work: Sullivan, R. and  Warner, M.