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    Sustainable development in mineral economies: the example of Botswana

    Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa, Pretoria, 2003
    Mineral wealth often detracts from, rather than enhances, the economic performance of developing countries, a phenomenon known as the “resource curse”. The need to finance basic government expenditure, as well as rent-seeking behaviour by individuals and interest groups, puts pressure on developing country governments to spend mineral revenues rather than reinvest them.
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    Flags of inconvenience?: the Global Compact and the future of the United Nations

    Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2004
    The Global Compact, established in 2000 in order to internalise a set of principles in global business, has attracted much criticism related to its role, effects, and accountability.
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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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    UNIDO Industrial Development Report 2004: industrialisation, environment, and the Millenium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa: the new frontier in the fight against poverty

    United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2004
    This year's report focuses on the prospects for achieving the MDGs in sub-Saharan Africa and on the usefulness of these as targets. It argues that meeting the MDG targets are necessary to set sustained economic growth in motion, but that sustained productivity growth (the main source of long-term economic development) will not result automatically from progress towards achieving the MDGs.
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    Can a financial instrument improve the management of natural ecosystems?

    Eldis Document Store, 2004
    This report highlights the opportunities presented by the 2000 Amendment to the 1995 Pensions Act in the UK to improve companies’ management of natural capital, including ecosystems, the services they deliver and the millions of animal and plant species that constitute biological diversity.Highlights of the report include:the Amendment can play a role in improving the management of natu
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    Corporate social responsibility and business regulation

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004
    This policy briefing paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to regulating corporate responsibility.
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    Corporate responsibility and the future of the international trade and investment agendas

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003
    This paper argues that there are fundamental tensions between businesses’ lobbying on international trade and investment issues and their attempts to address environmental and social issues through a ‘voluntarist’ corporate responsibility (CR) agenda, as often efforts to liberalise international trade contribute to inequality and poverty, while the CR agenda attempts to ameliorate these same effec
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    Investment and sustainable development: a guide to the use and potential of international investment agreements

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004
    This paper examines the role played by international investment agreements (IIAs) in fostering sustainable development. It reviews the various rights and obligations, and arbitration rules of regional, bilateral and multilateral investment agreements.It finds that there is a need to reconsider the underlying purposes, substantive content and processes associated with IIAs.
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    Investing in stability: conflict risk, markets and the bottom-line

    United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2004
    While the role of extractive industries in violent conflicts in developing countries has received much international attention and efforts to promote greater corporate responsibility, similar issues also face financial institutions which invest in conflict situations.
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    Exploring the role of development cooperation agencies in corporate responsibility

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    The paper examines what donors are doing to promote and enable corporate responsibility. It presents findings from a conference held in March 2004.

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