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    Business Linkages: lessons, opportunities, and challenges

    International Business Leaders Forum, 2007
    This paper discusses how, when and why transnational firms should strengthen links with the local environment of the host countries they operate in. It particularly focuses on strengthening links with small and medium enterprises  (SMEs). The paper identifies key challenges and approaches in the practice of business linkages.
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    A legacy of harm: Occidental petroleum in indigenous territory in the Peruvian Amazon

    EarthRights International, 2007
    This paper investigates the actions of the Los-Angeles based company, Occidental petroleum (Oxy) which have led to contamination in the Peruvian Amazon. It particularly focuses on the human rights and environmental abuses that have resulted from Oxy’s behaviour.
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    Stakeholder engagement: a good practice handbook for companies doing business in emerging markets

    International Finance Corporation, 2007
    This handbook provides good practice “essentials” for managing stakeholder relationships in a dynamic context, where unexpected events can and do occur, and facts on the ground change. The focus of this handbook is on stakeholder groups “external” to the core operation of the business, such as affected communities and local government authorities.
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    The Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2007
    This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems.
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    A case study on corporate governance between a public and private sector

    Development Gateway, 2007
    Can good corporate governance explain the private sector’s efficiency in service service delivery and production? This report compares the corporate governance of a private and a public institution in Swaziland; Nedbank and the Ministry of Enterprise and Employment, respectively.
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    India: Orissa, Kashipur: Utkal bauxite & alumina project: human rights and environmental impacts

    Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2007
    This report reviews environmental and social aspects of plans by Utkal Alumina Industries Ltd to mine bauxite and refine alumina. The project is a joint venture between Canada’s Alcan and Hindalco.
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    All that glitters: gold mining in Guyana – the failure of government oversight and the human rights of Amerindian communities

    Harvard Law School, 2007
    This report documents the failure of Guyanese mining regulations to prevent severe human rights abuses and devastating damage to the natural environment and the communities where Amerindians live.The report finds large gaps in regulation which deprive people of critical rights over the lands they occupy, and misallocate resources and responsibilities.
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    ILO Convention 169 and the private sector: questions and answers for IFC clients

    International Finance Corporation, 2007
    This note seeks to address the private sector’s role in complying with the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples.
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    Monsanto and smallholder farmers: a case-study on corporate accountability

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    This paper examines Monsanto’s Smallholder Programme (SHP) and considers the implications of the programme on corporate accountability.
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    Making accountability count

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This policy brief examines and clarifies some of the notions around the concept of accountability, whether this may be government accountability, corporate accountability, or civil society accountability. It looks at who benefits from improved accountability and focuses on how people claim accountability in practice.The paper points out that accountability can rarely be provided from above.

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