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    2006 Global Accountability Report: holding power to account

    One World Trust, 2006
    The 2006 Global Accountability Report measures and compares the accountability of transnational organisations in the intergovernmental (IGOs), non-governmental (INGOs) and corporate sectors (TNCs) on the basis of four dimensions of accountability: transparency, participation, evaluation, and complaint and response.The findings show differences between and within the three sectors.
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    Entrepreneur: overcoming poverty through enterprise

    Making markets work better for the poor, 2005
    These 15 case studies were used in the book of the same title, to illustrate the opportunities, successes and dedication of Vietnamese individuals who have created their own small businesses from nothing. Written as a series of stories, the cases are hugely diverse, yet all share the achievement of realising market opportunities and taking advantage of them.
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    Human rights aspects of the construction of the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Project in Turkey

    Amnesty International, 2006
    The purpose of this position paper is to provide a human rights review of the Ilisu Dam Project by looking at selected areas of the project, assessing them against international human rights standards and giving pertinent recommendations. The Ilisu Dam and hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) is part of the Turkish South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP).
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    New democratic trends in China? reforming the All-China Federation of Trade Unions

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This paper examines the rise of direct elections in the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), their significance for the reform of China’s sole trade union federation and for improving workers’ conditions, and their broader implications for processes of governance in China.It outlines the diverse pressures on the ACFTU to reform and the various initiatives taken to this end.
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    The stakeholder engagement manual volume 2: The practitioner's handbook on stakeholder engagement

    Stakeholder Research Associates, 2005
    This handbook provides practical guidance, advice and signposts for further information to those interested in how to make stakeholder engagement more effective and beneficial for an organisation and its stakeholders.
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    The stakeholder engagement manual: Volume 1: the guide to practitioners' perspectives on stakeholder engagement

    Stakeholder Research Associates, 2005
    In the first of a two part manual on stakeholder engagement the authors discuss challenges that different organisations are facing with stakeholder relations. They consider whether the stakeholder relations (SR) of today, are simply the PR of yesterday?The manual addresses how far company executives should go in considering stakeholders.
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    Block by block: how one of the world’s largest companies builds loyalty among Mexico’s poor

    Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2005
    This article explores how Cemex, the world’s second-largest cement maker and one of Mexico’s largest companies, has engaged in a programme providing Mexico’s poor with relatively easy access to building material.
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    Shared goals: sport and business in partnerships for development

    International Business Leaders Forum, 2005
    This paper explores how business can use sport as a successful tool for development partnerships. It explains how sport can be used to tackle challenges such as reducing corruption, education, mitigating conflict and fostering economic development.
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    When social movements bypass the poor: asbestos pollution, international litigation and Griqua cultural identity

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper examines citizen mobilisation and activism in relation to asbestos disease and litigation in South Africa. In order to do so the paper follows the litigation case of Cape plc, a British company mining asbestos in South Africa, which lead the company to pay compensation to 7,500 former employees with asbestos-related diseases.
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    The emergence of corporate citizenship in South Africa

    International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, 2004
    This paper provides an overview of the emergence of corporate citizenship in South Africa since 1994.

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