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

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  Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

  The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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  Business for sustainable urbanisation: challenges and opportunities

  United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2007

  2007 marks the beginning of a new urban era - for the first time, half of humanity will be living in towns and cities.
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  Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2005

  Transparency International, 2005

  Transparency International’s 2005 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) measures the perceived level of corruption in 159 countries.
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  Unleashing entrepreneurship: making business work for the poor

  United Nations Development Programme, 2004

  This paper reflects the meetings of the UN's Commission on the Private Sector and Development. The authors explore how the private sector can help reduce widespread poverty; the Commission believes that the primary responsibility for achieving growth and equitable development lies with developing countries.
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  Uzbekistan energy sector: issues, analysis, and an agenda for reform

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper analyses the energy sector in Uzbekistan and presents a detailed proposal for its reform. It argues that Uzbekistan’s considerable endowment with primary energy resources has led to a subsidisation of energy that has brought about many weaknesses.
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  Lifting the resource curse: extractive industry, children and governance

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This report explores the reasons behind the link between mineral wealth and child poverty in countries such as Azerbaijan, Colombia, Nigeria, Sudan and Venezuela.
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  Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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  The tourism industry and poverty reduction: a business primer

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  Millions of poor people live in places that are also tourism destinations. But many tourism companies claim that poverty reduction is not their business.
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  Growth, employment and redistribution: a macroeconomic strategy (South African Government policy document)

  African National Congress, 1999

  A strategy for rebuilding and restructuring the economy is set out in this document, in keeping with the goals set in the Reconstruction and Development Programme.
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  The OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI): update

  Oxfam, 1998

  The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is a new investment treaty being negotiated between the world's industrialised countries in the OECD. This briefing paper explains why Oxfam believes that the draft MAI falls far short of establishing a fair framework of rules governing international investment.

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