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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalisation, Governance

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  The precarious state of public finance

  Global Policy Forum, 2007

  As part of the ongoing debate over sustainable development financing, this paper identifies and examines the obstacles to effective mobilisation of domestic revenues in Southern countries.
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  The OECD guidelines for multi-national enterprises: an evolving legal status

  Sherpa, 2007

  This paper provides an overview of the growing sphere of influence of multinational enterprises (MNEs). It aims to open up avenues which will enable the influence of the current framework of positive law on MNEs to be strengthened and to consider international customary law that could enable the guidelines to find a place within hard-law institutions.
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  Beyond pragmatism: appraising UN-business partnerships

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2006

  This paper outlines the growing number of partnerships across the UN spectrum and takes particular note of the recent emphasis placed on mainstreaming and scaling up partnership activities in the UN system. Both the theory and practice of partnerships suggest that thinking and policy need to go beyond evidence and assumptions about good governance and pragmatism.
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  Privatising basic utilities in Africa: a rejoinder

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  This paper offers a critical analysis of Bayliss and McKinley’s 2007 IPC Policy Research Brief on “Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: the MDG Consequences”.The author agrees with their statement that African governments were pushed into accepting private participation in basic infrastructure by international financial institutions and donors.
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  Corporate accountability to the poor?: assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper investigates how, when and why community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountability to the poor.
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  Global action networks: a global invention helping business make globalisation work for all

  Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2003

  This paper explores what it considers to be a new type of organisation: Global Action Networks (GANs). These networks cross important divides such as developed-developing countries, business-government-civil society, cultures and knowledge disciplines.
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  The Global Compact: origins, operations, progress, challenges

  Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2003

  This paper gives a brief overview of the origins, scope, achievements and future challenges of the Global Compact.
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  The ISO and corporate social responsibility: stakeholder engagement, ISO and corporate social responsibility

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  Multi-stakeholder engagement is a central theme of the corporate social responsibility (CSR), or social responsibility (SR) agenda.
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  The ISO and corporate social responsibility: small and medium-sized enterprises

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  The existing social responsibility (SR) debate almost entirely focuses on large enterprises. The drivers of the debate, including NGOs, investors and regulatory authorities, naturally tend to focus on large, high profile companies.
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  Global standards and the environmental performance of industry

  School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2004

  Initially presented at the conference on Global Standards, Oxford, November 2003, this paper considers the emergence of global standards as a driver of improvements in the environmental performance of industry. It focuses on the growing importance of firm-based global environmental standards as an alternative to the more widely recognised state-centred approaches.

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