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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethical investment, Finance policy

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  Investing in stability: conflict risk, markets and the bottom-line

  United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2004

  While the role of extractive industries in violent conflicts in developing countries has received much international attention and efforts to promote greater corporate responsibility, similar issues also face financial institutions which invest in conflict situations.
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  Race to the top: attracting and enabling global sustainable business

  World Bank, 2003

  The paper finds that investment and purchase decisions are increasingly driven by corporate social responsibility (CSR) concerns, and that developing countries can take steps to attract sustainable investment by creating an enforceable legal framework and by engaging with multinational enterprises (MNEs) on CSR issues.
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  Far from home: do foreign investors import higher standards of governance in transition economies?

  Social Science Research Network, 2002

  This paper argues that while a number of recent studies have shown that corruption inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI), comparatively little attention has been given to the behavior of those who have invested in corrupt countries.
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  Risky business: how the World Bank’s insurance arm fails the poor and harms the environment

  Friends of the Earth, 2002

  This report provides basic information about the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)does, and assesses its record of supporting environmentally damaging, developmentally dubious projects. It gives an overview of MIGA’s current activities, membership, funding sources, recent growth, and role within the larger political risk insurance industry.
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  Foreign direct investment: a lead driver for sustainable development?

  Stakeholder Forum, 2001

  In consideration of a number of advantages and disadvantages of Foreign Direct Investment, and analysis of regional trends, the author considers the "role and responsibilities of institutions in order to utilise FDI in a more effective manner".
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  Racing to the bottom?: foreign investment and air quality in developing countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000

  This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by examining firstly, air quality data in industrialised countries and selected developing countries (China, Mexico, Brazil).
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  Getting traction?: sustainable development and the governance of investment

  Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2000

  This paper explores new approaches to the global governance of investment which could channel investment, especially foreign direct investment (FDI), towards more socially just and ecologically sustainable development.Part I outlines three sources of dysfunctionality in the current investment regime and argues that global norms are needed to get environmental standards out of being "stuck in
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  The Role of International Investment in Development, Corporate Responsibilities and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Conference report

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  Papers from Sept 1999 conference covering corporat responsibility, social accounting, foreign investment, and codes of conduct. Considered in the context of the OECD guidelines on corporate responibility

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