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  The challenges of assessing the poverty impact of ethical trading: what can be learnt from fair trade initiatives and the sustainable livelihoods approach?

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This is a report of a workshop organised by DfID that consisted of a number of presentations and discussion around the impact of ethical trading on poverty.The presentation reported on in this document focused on difficulties with the monitoring and evaluation of ethical trading initiatives.
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  Case studies of corporate outreach

  Inter-American Foundation, 2002

  This is a collection of examples of IAF partnerships with the private sector that is intended to provide examples to companies of ways in which CSR can be in their interest. The introduction to the collection argues that for the private sector to develop participatory, sustainable investments in the community, it must have an enlightened self-interest in the process.
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  Legal issues in corporate citizenship

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This document provides and overview of legal issues as they relate to current CSR debates.
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  Diamonds, forever or for good?: the economic impact of diamonds in South Africa

  Partnership Africa Canada, 2002

  This document considers the economic impact of diamonds in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. It states that the many global campaigns to stop trade in conflict diamonds has tended to ignore the benefits of the legitimate industry for these countries. The author describes a study that attempts to verify the claims regarding the positive aspects of the industry.
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  Responsible business practice: lessons from Ghana, India and Trinidad & Tobago

  Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, UK, 2003

  This report attempts to provide a complete overview of socially responsible business practice in Ghana, India and Trinidad and Tobago and how each sector views the subject.The paper provides and overview of socially responsible business practice (SRBP) in each of the three countries and draws out the following factors that every sector faces in each country:there is a lack of informatio
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  How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec
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  Corporate social responsibility and disaster reduction

  Development Planning Unit, University College London [UCL], 2002

  This paper presents the results of a research project that looked at the nature of private sector involvement in disaster reduction in developing countries through their philanthropic and social responsibility programmes. The project was a preliminary investigation, at global level and in five South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).
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  Climate change and the skiing industry: impacts and potential responses

  University of Lapland Arctic Centre, 2001

  This paper looks at the environmental impacts of skiing on mountain ecosystems, the economic importance of skiing for many communities and the potential consequences of climate change for both.The author states that climate change may cause skiing to become unviable in a number of resorts, which would be economically bad for residents but may be ecologically good for the areas that have been im
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  Public sector roles in strengthening corporate social resopnsibility: a baseline study

  Private Sector Development Department, World Bank, 2002

  The report explores the range of roles that public sector agencies play in providing an enabling environment for corporate social responsibility (CSR). The study underscores the fact that actions taken by the public sector can positively support businesses’ overall contributions to sustainable development.
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  From transition to accession: the experience of Corporate Social Responsibility in Central and Eastern Europe

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2002

  This paper begins by looking the context of CSR in the new market economies of Eastern Europe. The author states that support for enterprise development has been weak, especially for the less advantaged (youth, minorities, long-term unemployed, women). Corruption has become further entrenched and there is little political will to address this at the public level.

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