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  The "Pay Your Taxes" debate: perspectives on corporate taxation and social responsibility in the Chilean mining industry

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of foreign copper mining companies in Chile, this document explores unethical corporate practices such as subcontracting, non-payment of taxes, corporate political influence, transfer pricing and intracorporate financial flows, which undermine social, sustainable and economic development.It consists of two papers which present different opinions and points of view.
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  Block by block: how one of the world’s largest companies builds loyalty among Mexico’s poor

  Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2005

  This article explores how Cemex, the world’s second-largest cement maker and one of Mexico’s largest companies, has engaged in a programme providing Mexico’s poor with relatively easy access to building material.
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  How Dutch public money is used to finance the oil industry

  Milieudefensie, Friends of the Earth Netherlands, 2005

  This report investigates how Dutch public money is being used to support oil production in developing countries through Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) such as the World Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and other International Financial Institutions (IFIs).
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  Associations of small and medium forest enterprise: an initial review of issues for local livelihoods and sustainability

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2004

  This paper provides an introduction to recent literature on the benefits of small and medium enterprise (SME) associations and how to achieve them. An introduction is given to some of the language used by different disciplines that may have something to offer the forest sector.
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  Caste discrimination and the private sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005

  This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.
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  Microfinance and the double bottom line: measuring social return for the microfinance industry & microcredit with education programs

  Social Enterprise Associates, 2005

  This paper examines possibilities of partnerships between for microfinance and socially responsible investor. While microfinance’s value as development tool is well established, currently supply falls fall short of demand. Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) might be a solution to the problem.
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  HIV/AIDS beyond Africa: managing the financial impacts

  F&C Asset Management, 2005

  This study focuses on how HIV/AIDS affetcs financial performance of companies as well as the overall financial markets. It also explores what companies can do to manage the effects of the disease.Key Findings of the report include:in 2004, estimates indicated that between 36 and 44 million people worldwide were living with HIV.
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  Public sector capacity, corporate responsibility and corporate profitability in Africa

  Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative [Harvard University], 2005

  This report examines possibilities for an involvement of private businesses in strengthening the public sector in Sub Saharan Africa. The paper highlights that public sector capacities in SSA are limited, and in high HIV prevalence countries, these capacities are declining.Private businesses therefore have two options – continued detachment or constructive engagement.
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  Corruption in international business transactions: the perspective of Norwegian firms

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  The paper aims at obtaining a better understanding of the dynamics of corruption in international business transactions, focusing particularly on the perspectives of Norwegian firms.
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  Follow the money: a guide to monitoring budgets and oil and gas revenues

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2005

  This report provides practical information on how to be an effective monitor of government earnings and expenditures.

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