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  The great water robbery

  One World Action, 2002

  Water is a precious resource and nowadays it is becoming more and more limited.
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  Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  A 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.
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  The response of the informal sector to trade liberalization

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2002

  This 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.
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  Global accountability report

  One World Trust, 2003

  Report compares the accountability of Inter-governmental Organisations (IGOs), Trans-national Corporations (TNCs) and International NGOs, assessing eighteen of the world’s most powerful organisations.
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  Altered images: understanding and encouraging corporate responsibility in India

  New Academy of Business, UK, 2001

  This report presents the results of a poll on corporate responsibility in India.
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  Codes of corporate conduct: expanded review of their contents

  OECD Development Centre, 2001

  This 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.
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  WTO and product-related environmental standards

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  This 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.
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  Preparing marine protected areas to survive global change: additional guidelines to address coral bleaching

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001

  This paper describes guidelines for marine protected area (MPA) design and management that take into account the significant global problem of coral bleaching.
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  Profits over people: tobacco industry activities to market cigarettes and undermine public health in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Pan American Health Organization, 2002

  This 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).
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  Stitching values together: implementing core labour standards through management training in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2002

  This 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.

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