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    Caring corporations? Business and social responsibility in Indonesia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can transnational corporations (TNCs) be made more socially responsible? This study looks at efforts to change business practices in Indonesia and asks whether corporate social responsibility is relevant to the current state of crisis in the region.
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    Transnational corporate accountability: Insights from South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People in developing countries are increasingly affected by the activities of multinational companies, yet it is difficult for them to hold those companies to account in court. What lessons can be learnt from two recent foreign direct liability cases brought against northern multinationals?
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    How civil can corporations be? Ethical business in a fairer world

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What scope is there for corporations to improve their social and economic performance? Can we shape markets in ways that entice or force corporations to operate within a sustainable social and environmental framework? How can business, public institutions and non-profit organisations work together to create new mechanisms of corporate accountability?
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    Raising gender sensitivity: ethical trade in African horticulture

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    African producers exporting fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers to UK supermarkets now have to meet codes of conduct covering their conditions of employment. Much of the workforce is female seasonal labour, with men predominantly occupying permanent and more secure work. Employment conditions are often far worse for women.
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    Do fair trade partnerships work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How effective are partnerships between fair trade organisations and producers? Do both sides have the same expectations of and priorities for these partnerships? Research by the University of Bradford reviews how fair trade, as practiced by alternative trading organisations (ATOs), evolved during the 1990s from a solidarity to a partnership model.
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    Aid or Trade? Managing fair trade commercial and NGO partnerships

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Partnerships between commercial and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are creating new challenges for development practice in seeking to promote 'fair trade' between producers in the South and western consumers. Joint ventures that try to combine commercial and development objectives produce distinct problems, however.
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    Who benefits from sustainable trade?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Environmental factors increasingly influence exports from developing countries. For some this can open up new trading opportunities but for others it presents new barriers and constraints. Is the net outcome of this environmentally-driven pattern of trading good for poverty elimination and development in general?
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    Ethically sustainable? Trade and rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is ethical trade contributing to the achievement of sustainable rural livelihoods? What are the strengths and weaknesses of ethical trade schemes (ETS)?
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    Challenges facing Fair Trade: which way now?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can Fair Trade (FT) continue to compete in the marketplace? What is the impact of the relationship between FT organisations (FTOs) and producers? How can FT substantiate its claims to benefit producers?
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    How fair is ethical trade? A look at Uganda’s organic cotton sector

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Ethical trade can be used to describe any trading relationship where social and environmental criteria are used, in addition to the purely economic, to measure performance. What impact has fair trade practice had on rural livelihoods in Uganda? What is needed to sustain such projects?

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