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  Corporate accountability in search of a treaty? Some insights from foreign direct liability

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002

  This Briefing Paper looks at two sets of legal actions that attempted to secure transnational corporate accountability. The cases are examples of increasing efforts to establish ‘foreign direct liability’ – holding parent companies accountable in home country courts to people affected by their environmental, social or human rights impacts in other countries.
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  Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.
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  Extractive Sectors and the Poor

  Oxfam, 2001

  This paper examines how states that rely on oil and mineral exports address the concerns of the poor. Its central finding is that oil and mineral dependence are strongly associated with unusually bad conditions for the poor.
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  Governance of the World Bank

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  Looks at the governance structure of the Bank, the evolution of the share position and voting rights of member countries and at how countries are represented through constituencies and on the Bank Board.It also looks at the relationship of the Bank with the other Multilateral Development Banks and the IMF, and compares the governance structures of the various institutions.It concludes by o
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  Risky business: how the World Bank’s insurance arm fails the poor and harms the environment

  Friends of the Earth, 2002

  This report provides basic information about the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)does, and assesses its record of supporting environmentally damaging, developmentally dubious projects. It gives an overview of MIGA’s current activities, membership, funding sources, recent growth, and role within the larger political risk insurance industry.
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  Promoting a European framework for corporate social responsibility

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  Response to a July 2001 European Commision Green Paper on corporate social responsibility. Argues that an EU strategy should recognise the value of considering all dimensions of business impacts on the economy, on society and the environment in an integrated way. The role and value of both voluntary and regulatory approaches must be considered alongside one another.
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  Private sector response to HIV/AIDS in Swaziland: impact, response, vulnerability and barriers to implementation of workplace HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

  Global Development Network, 2001

  This report presents a detailed analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the private sector, by focusing on costs imposed on the private sector as a result of increased illness and deaths from AIDS. The report also discusses the knowledge, attitudes and practices of businesses in the area of HIV/AIDS at the workplace.
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  Foreign direct investment: a lead driver for sustainable development?

  Stakeholder Forum, 2001

  In consideration of a number of advantages and disadvantages of Foreign Direct Investment, and analysis of regional trends, the author considers the "role and responsibilities of institutions in order to utilise FDI in a more effective manner".
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  Racing to the bottom?: foreign investment and air quality in developing countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000

  This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by examining firstly, air quality data in industrialised countries and selected developing countries (China, Mexico, Brazil).
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  Havens, halos and spaghetti: untangling the evidence about foreign direct investment and the environment

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  This paper examines the evidence of opposing claims to there being a 'race to the top' or 'race to the bottom' in the environmental standards of developing countries in the context of the increasing globalisation of capital flows and foreign direct investment.Case studies show that while foreign firms may not have been drawn in by lower standards, they clearly perform like environmental renegad

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