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  Meeting the challenge of the resource curse: international experiences in managing the risks and realising the opportunities of non-renewable natural resource revenue management

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This report starts from the premise that countries endowed with non-renewable natural resources (NRNR) are faced with substantial opportunities, but also great risks.
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  Reversing the curse: five principles for beating the "natural resource curse"

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This briefing paper recognises that the presence of non-renewable natural resources (NRNR) in a country, such as oil, gas, metals and mineral commodities, can bring great risks, in the shape of economic mis-management, instability, inflation, and corruption, as well as potential opportunities.
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  How multinational investors evade developed country laws to prevent bribery and corruption in the developing world (including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and what can be done about it

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  Despite preventative measures, many multinational corporations from the U.S.A. Europe and Japan manage to pay their way out of complying with ethical and environmental constraints and evade anti-corruption laws, using sophisticated payment mechanisms to buy the favour of government ministers and their families.
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  Lifting the lid on foreign investment contracts: the real deal for sustainable development

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This Briefing Paper focuses on deals between foreign investors and governments – foreign investment contracts. It argues that the terms of these deals have major implications for whether investment projects bring real benefits for the people and environments of the countries where they take place, or whether instead they undermine sustainable development.
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  Where do you draw the line? Research into the financial links between five bank groups and companies that abuse human rights

  Netwerk Vlaanderen, 2005

  This paper explores the financial links between banks and companies which abuse human rights.
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  Indian attraction: profitable multinationals as subsidy junkies: a study of incentives for foreign investment in India

  FinnWatch, 2005

  This report examines incentives offered to investors in India by the central government in New Delhi as well as the different state governments.
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  Accountability mechanisms for multilateral financial institutions and the private sector

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper examines accountability mechanisms of for Multilateral Financial Institutions (MFI’s) and the Private Sector.
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  Making profits, protecting our planet: corporate responsibility for environmental performance in Asia and the Pacific

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005

  This document highlights findings and recommendations as detailed in the second Asian Development Bank report into Asian environmental concerns. The authors focus on the private sector to examine how companies are responding to new legal, social, and market pressures for improved environmental performance.
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  Corporate sector involvement in Education for All: partnerships with corporate involvement for the improvement of basic education, gender equality, and adult literacy in developing countries

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This study is a micro-level analysis of partnerships in education between corporate and public stakeholders. It attempts to evaluate partnerships to understand how and why they function.
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  Contracting out of human rights: the Chad–Cameroon pipeline project

  Amnesty International, 2005

  Will an oil pipeline investment agreement between the governments of Chad and Cameroon and a consortium led by ExxonMobil, including Chevron and Petronas pose a serious threat to human rights in Chad and Cameroon?

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