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    Triple bottom line? Promoting responsible business

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Business is talking about the triple bottom line: management of performance and delivery of added value in economic, social and environmental terms. Yet the concept is being taken up only by image-conscious high-profile companies or alternative trade organisations.
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    Are Western concepts of regulatory governance relevant in the south?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    How should privatisation and regulatory reforms introduced into developing economies be interpreted? Can northern models of regulation be emulated readily or transferred? Do we know enough about the economic results and social effects of neo- liberal economic reforms in developing countries? How should we conceptualise, and tackle, corruption?
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    Public-Private Partnerships: a new paradigm for sustainable development in education

    World Bank, 2003
    This paper assesses the comparative advantages of three models for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in secondary education:Model 1: a private sector firm adopts a school or schoolsModel 2: the private sector firm provides a specific product to a school or the entire systemModel 3: the private sector firm actually operates public schoolsAdvantages of PPPs:business
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    Creating market opportunities for small enterprises: experiences of the fair trade movement

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This paper assesses the successes and lessons learned in Fair Trade to date.
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    Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

    World Rainforest Movement, 2003
    This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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    Shifting sands: oil exploration in the Rift Valley and the Congo conflict

    Pole Institute, 2003
    This paper addresses the impact of the oil exploration in the Rift Valley (East Congo) on the crisis in the country.
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    Integrating biodiversity conservation into oil & gas development

    World Conservation Union, 2003
    This document and its accompanying products provide guidance for how to achieve the integration of biodiversity considerations into upstream oil and gas development.The report argues that it is in the interests of the energy industry and society to continually work toward achieving this integration.
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    Fair Trade: a balance of intellectual property, competition and other rights

    Interamerican Association of Industrial Property, 2003
    This paper presents recommendations for the WTO 5th Ministerial Conference in Cancún on the following subjects:dispute settlement understandingantitrustcorporate governance: trade and investmenttrade and environmenttrade and transfer of technologybiological resources, folklore and traditional knowledgegeographical indicationsdeclaration on the TRIPs agreement an
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    Organized labour in the 21st century

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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    A survey of corporate governance

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1996
    This paper surveys research on corporate governance, with special attention to the importance of legal protection of investors and of ownership concentration in corporate governance systems around the world.Findings:the agency problem (the separation of management and finance) is serious.

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