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    Guide to corporate human rights impact assessment tools

    Aim for Human Rights, 2009
    The tools in this guide for Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs)  are based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and help in assessing the impact of business on human rights.
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    Private sector accountability in combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children

    End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, 2008
    This paper evaluates the private sector’s role in the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). It identifies four sub-sectors habitually associated with CSEC:
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    Three lenses on the multinational enterprise: politics, corruption, and corporate social responsibility

    Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006
    Issues relating to politics, corruption and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are becoming more important, particularly when viewed in the context of increasing globalisation, international trade and investment, and recent corporate scandals.This paper suggests that each of these three topics provides a unique ‘lens’ through which to understand how multinational enterprises (MNEs)
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    Corporate social responsibility survey of Hang Seng Index constituent companies

    Oxfam Hong Kong, 2008
    This paper discusses the findings of a survey on how companies listed on the Hang Seng Index practice their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies. The paper notes that companies listed on the Hang Seng Index collectively have an enormous impact on the Hong Kong economy, and thus, on social and environmental issues.
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    Sustainable procurement from developing countries: practices and challenges for businesses and support agencies

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2008
    This paper examines how Western firms sourcing products from developing countries can achieve sustainable procurement. It argues that sustainable procurement has a role to play in poverty reduction. The paper considers the history and trends that underlie sustainable procurement, and looks at the links between corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement practices.
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    Report of the expert legal panel on corporate complicity in international crimes

    Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2008
    The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) established an Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes in 2006. The panel was mandated to develop the legal and public policy meaning of corporate complicity in the worst violations of international human rights and humanitarian law that amount to international crimes.
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    Returns on investment in responsible business practice: higher in a downturn?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This paper examines the impact of the downturn on “good business” - a commercial approach to investing or operating that includes the poor and boosts development. It looks at the affect of the downturn on the capacity of companies to invest in this kind of business, and the returns reaped from such investment.
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    Increasing government revenues from the extractive sector in Sub-Saharan-Africa

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
    The extractive sector is a major source of domestic revenue for sub-Saharan African countries that can help in achieving  the Millennium Development Goals. This paper examines the factors hindering these countries from generating the optimum revenue from the extractive industries. It identifies the following as the main impediments:
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    Corporate governance for emerging markets: a CIPE reform toolkit

    Center for International Private Enterprise, 2008
    There is a growing consensus among policymakers, business leaders, and the public that corporate governance is an essential tool for improving corporate performance and advancing the overall development of market-oriented democracies. This paper argues that the potential benefits from governance reforms in emerging markets are enormous.
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    Private sector development strategy - prosperity for all: making markets work

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    While experience across the developing world has shown that economic growth is essential for poverty reduction, it is less clear how particular economies grow. Increasingly, however, it is recognised that growth is in large part stimulated by the private sector and market activity.

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