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  Clean up your computer: working conditions in the electronics sector

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper analyses the labour standards and working conditions in computing manufacturing, particularly in developing countries where many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled and low-paid workers.The paper finds that unlike their counterparts in the clothing and footwear sector, computer companies have thus far escaped scrutiny on labour issues.
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  Development at risk: rethinking UN-business partnerships

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2003

  This study examines issues that affect the extent to which partnerships between the UN and business, which have proliferated in recent years, are likely to contribute to development.It suggests that there are various grounds for concluding that close relations between the UN and business will do little to promote development:there are systemic factors that limit the extent of improvemen
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  A comparative study of GCC banks technical efficiency

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2001

  This paper estimates the technical efficiency of 52 banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and presents a brief overview of the banking sector in GCC countries.The paper uses earning assets, loans and investments as outputs, and fixed assets, labour and financial capital as inputs to measure efficiency and finds that:there is ample room for GCC banks to improve their technical effi
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  Race to the top: attracting and enabling global sustainable business

  World Bank, 2003

  The paper finds that investment and purchase decisions are increasingly driven by corporate social responsibility (CSR) concerns, and that developing countries can take steps to attract sustainable investment by creating an enforceable legal framework and by engaging with multinational enterprises (MNEs) on CSR issues.
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  Trading away our rights: women working in global supply chains

  Oxfam, 2004

  While much research has focused on the content of labour codes of conduct and how suppliers meet them, this paper argues that in practice it is the supply-chain purchasing practices of the large companies themselves that undermine the labour standards the codes claim to support.The paper argues that a new model of business practice that requires increasing flexibility through "just-in-time" del
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  Capitalizing on conflict: how logging and mining contribute to environmental destruction in Burma

  EarthRights International, 2003

  This paper presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems, and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights abuses, in Burma.
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  Does reporting work?: the effect of regulation

  AccountAbility, 2003

  This paper explores the value of reporting to businesses and their stakeholders, as well as the role of regulation in making otherwise voluntary reporting initiatives more effective. It tries to avoid ideological debates over ‘voluntary vs.
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  Some transparency, no accountability: the use of oil revenue in Angola and its impact on human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report analyses the IMF’s overall relationship with the government of Angola and the results of the IMF-led “Oil Diagnostic” monitoring system as a form of pressure for reform toward transparency and accountability.The report argues that the Angolan government has consistently mismanaged its substantial oil revenues, which reflects a failure of government accountability and a continuing fa
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  Codes of conduct, government regulation and worker organizing

  Maquila Solidarity Network, 2000

  This paper examines the advantages and limitations of voluntary codes of conduct, which have become prominent as labour standards and working conditions in consumer products industries have deteriorated in the wake of trade liberalisation and globalisation, and restructuring of production and distribution.The paper argues that there are legitimate grounds to be sceptical about the usefulness o
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  Building corporate governance and shareholder democracy: lessons from Malaysia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  A key feature of Malaysia’s financial crisis of 1997-98 was the scale and magnitude of private sector debt. In 1997 the proportion of such debt to GDP was 170 per cent. Much of it was corporate debt by companies listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE).

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