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  Harnessing tourism for poverty elimination: a blueprint from the Gambia

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 2002

  This report summarises the methodology and results of a study undertaken over 19 months for the DFID tourism challenge fund. The Gambia has a strong all-inclusive tourism industry, which has led, in some cases, to the exclusion of those working in the informal sector and trying to make a living from tourism.The study undertook an initial baseline survey of both formal and informal sectors.
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  Oil development in Nigeria: a critical investigation of Chevron corporation’s performance in the Niger River Delta

  Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2000

  This report draws on a wide variety of information sources to discuss Chevron’s record of accountability within the larger context of Nigeria’s oil development.
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  Digging to development? a historical look at mining and economic development

  Oxfam, 2002

  This paper focuses on the role played by mining in the economic development of the US, Canada and Australia and the potential for the replication of this “success” in developing countries today.
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  Beyond good deeds: case studies and a new policy agenda for corporate accountability

  Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2002

  This paper questions whether corporations should be entrusted to self-regulate and enforce responsible practice in a global context that lacks accountability. The authors explore what role government should play in defining norms and providing incentives for better corporate performance, both at home and abroad.
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  Cruise control

  Ocean Conservancy, 2002

  This comprehensive document considers the impacts cruise ships can have on the marine environment and controls to minimise them.The document begins by outlining the history and current state of the cruise industry.
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  Getting real: the challenges of sustaining biodiversity partnerships

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2002

  This document, prepared for the WSSD 2002 in Johannesburg, explores the rhetoric and reality of the business/environment partnership approach that was defined and promoted at Rio ten years previously.The essay asks whether that approach has been effective and considers the major challenges that business/biodiversity partnerships face.
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  Business and biodiversity: the handbook for corporate action

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  The handbook makes the case for integrating biodiversity considerations and actions into daily activities and planning of businesses.
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  Tourism: putting ethics into practice

  Tearfund, 2001

  This reports on a survey of UK based tour operators that asked about their responsible business practices, with a focus on developing countries. The survey asked about four main areas of practice, namelybringing benefits to the local communitycharitable givingpartnershipsresponsible tourism policiesIn each case findings are discussed and recommendations made.
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  CSR and global business principles

  MHC International, 2002

  This paper briefly reviews the hundreds of CSR codes of conduct and principles around the world. It concludes that these codes are proliferating but rarely, if ever, situate themselves within what has happened before and why the new code is different or advances on previous ones.Few, if any, have a theoretical basis for their codes and many simply cover just one or at most two stakeholders.
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  The economic consequences of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  The paper provides an analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector, public education, the supply of labor and the returns to training in nine Southern African countries.Drawing on the preceding sections, it assesses the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita income in a neoclassical growth framework.

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