- How can foreign oil companies better manage developmental and environmental challenges in South Sudan
- K. Ives; M. Buchner 2011
- How can oil companies and consortia working in South Sudan (a newly independent country) better manage and mitigate the social and environmental challenges that so urgently need addressing? This research aims to enhance understandings...
- Strengthening the petroleum sector in Uganda
- ECON Pöyry, 2011
- This review looks at the overall results of the Petrad Capacity Building Programme for strengthening the State Petroleum Administration of the upstream petroleum sector in Uganda and assesses the extent to which the Programme has achi...
- Evaluation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- T. Reite (ed); A. Disch (ed); D. Gairdner (ed) / Scanteam, 2011
- During the short period since Evaluation of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) ,became operational with an elected Board and Secretariat in 2006-07, EITI has seen an impressive growth in the number of countries that ...
- Achievements and challenges of ethical trade
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
- Ethical trade as an approach to supply chain management has mushroomed in recent years. Northern companies are becoming increasingly concerned with the ‘ethics’ of their operations and the risks to reputation and productiv...
- The links between globalisation and poverty
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Globalisation is one of the most controversial development issues of the day. ‘Globaphobes’ attribute most of the ills of the world to globalisation. The anti-globalisation movement has focused attention on the extent to w...
- Regulation needs to do more than simply promote competitiveness and consumer interest: regulation needs to ensure that the market nurtures development
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Developing countries are now being asked to follow developed countries in the privatisation of goods and services previously provided by the state. It is argued that these countries will gain from the creation of efficient markets whi...
- The growing debate around GM Crops and the future of food and farming
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the United States and Europe, perhaps the main battle...
- Rethinking corporate social responsibility
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- 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 develop...
- Benefiting from market access opportunities
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- Developing countries cannot achieve sustainable growth and poverty reduction unless they integrate into the world economy. Trade reforms are necessary, but not enough to maximise the potential benefits of trade. Negotiations at the WT...
- How pro-poor tourism has developed and some myths and misconceptions that have arisen around this term
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Pro-poor tourism should increase the benefits of the tourism industry for poor people. It is a term increasingly used by several development agencies, but what does it mean in practice? This issue of id21 insights, shows t...
- Regulation needs to do more than simply promote competitiveness and consumer interest: regulation needs to ensure that the market nurtures development
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Developing countries are now being asked to follow developed countries in the privatisation of goods and services previously provided by the state. It is argued that these countries will gain from the creation of efficient markets whi...
- The growing debate around GM Crops and the future of food and farming
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the United States and Europe, perhaps the main battle...
- Rethinking corporate social responsibility
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- 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 develop...
- Benefiting from market access opportunities
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- Developing countries cannot achieve sustainable growth and poverty reduction unless they integrate into the world economy. Trade reforms are necessary, but not enough to maximise the potential benefits of trade. Negotiations at the WT...
- How pro-poor tourism has developed and some myths and misconceptions that have arisen around this term
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Pro-poor tourism should increase the benefits of the tourism industry for poor people. It is a term increasingly used by several development agencies, but what does it mean in practice? This issue of id21 insights, shows t...
- Developing Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Papua Highlands
- International Labour Organization, 2010
- This briefing documents the progress of ILO’s Entrepreneurship Skills Development project, which ran in 2009 and 2010 in the Papua Highlands, Indonesia, as part of the UN joint programme for the area. The ILO project was aimed a...
- Fresh insight on the impact of the mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa
- G. Hilson (ed); B. Campbell; J. Lungu / Third World Network Africa, 2010
- This report comprises 8 papers that were presented at a conference organised in Ghana in 2008, on the theme: ‘Beyond Foreign Direct Investment in Africa’s Mining Sector’. The papers explore various financial and prac...
- Up to a certain level of privatisation: environmental damage and privatisation are friends!
- R. Pal; B. Saha / Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2010
- This working paper analyses the impact of privatisation on the environment, where the level of privatisation is endogenously determined. The paper clarifies that the production process in many industries emits pollutants, which d...
- Considering insurance in reducing disaster risk and advancing adaptation
- K. Warner; N. Ranger; S. Surminski / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2010
- Development gains are increasingly at risk from climate change among other pressures. Adverse changes are already being observed in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation, resulting in drought, floods and tropical ...
- Country Risk Portal
- Human Rights and Business Project, 2010
- The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal (based at the Danish Institute for Human Rights) will create the first freely available website where companies can access country-specific information on human rights risks alongside ...
- China CSR Map
- Information service on CSR in China
- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- Promoting and defending workers’ rights and interests,
- Fair Trade Center
- Swedish Fair Trade Center
- The China Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD)
- Coalition of leading Chinese and foreign enterprises registered and operating in China
- ChinaWorld: International Research Network
- Research network focusing on business in China
- Environment-oriented Enterprises Consultancy Zhejiang
Chinese environment and development consultancy based in Zhejiang
- Dutch CSR Platform (MVO Platform)
- Coalition of Dutch Civil Society Organisations actively promoting CSR
- SynTao
- CSR information and consultancy service in China
- EARTHWORKS
- NGO campaigning on the negative impacts of mineral development
- Pulp Mill Watch
- Organsiation documenting the problems caused by the pulp industry's operations
