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The great water robbery
One World Action, 2002Water is a precious resource and nowadays it is becoming more and more limited.DocumentWater privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications
Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002A large number of countries in the Sub-Saharian African (SSA) region have privatised water supply. But water is not like other commodities. The SSA are extremely poor and often subject to financial crises, therefore it is particularly difficult to promote the water sector as an attractive business prospect.DocumentThe response of the informal sector to trade liberalization
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2002This paper analyses the links between trade liberalisation and informality. It is often claimed that increased foreign competition in developing countries leads to an expansion of the informal sector, defined as the sector that does not comply with labour market legislation.DocumentGlobal accountability report
One World Trust, 2003Report compares the accountability of Inter-governmental Organisations (IGOs), Trans-national Corporations (TNCs) and International NGOs, assessing eighteen of the world’s most powerful organisations.DocumentAltered images: understanding and encouraging corporate responsibility in India
New Academy of Business, UK, 2001This report presents the results of a poll on corporate responsibility in India.DocumentCodes of corporate conduct: expanded review of their contents
OECD Development Centre, 2001This paper looks at the contents of 246 voluntary corporate codes with respect to issue coverage and code implementation procedures.The codes examined differ considerably in terms of their content and degree of detail. This reflects the underlying diversity of the organisations issuing the codes, which differ in terms of size, sector and regional affiliation.DocumentWTO and product-related environmental standards
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003This article examines, in the Indian context, the issues of the linkage between exports from developing countries and the regulatory standards set by developed-country importers for food safety, quality and environmental norms.DocumentPreparing marine protected areas to survive global change: additional guidelines to address coral bleaching
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001This paper describes guidelines for marine protected area (MPA) design and management that take into account the significant global problem of coral bleaching.DocumentProfits over people: tobacco industry activities to market cigarettes and undermine public health in Latin America and the Caribbean
Pan American Health Organization, 2002This report, commissioned by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in the summer of 2001, summarizes previously secret tobacco industry documents from the two tobacco industry market leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): Philip Morris International (PMI) and British-American Tobacco Company (BAT).DocumentStitching values together: implementing core labour standards through management training in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector
International Business Leaders Forum, 2002This report details a pilot project in Bangladesh to bring about improvements in working conditions in the ready-made garment sector, by building management capacity to understand the need for and to be able to change.Pages
