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    The timber trade and poverty alleviation - Upper Great Lakes region

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    This report analyses how trade in timber produced in the eastern DRC and Southern Sudan can contribute to stability and economic development in the region. Presenting an overview of trade volumes and routes, the paper finds that almost all commercial timber exploitation in eastern DRC is non-industrial.
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    Transparency in oil rich economies

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    Corruption is a serious problem in many developing countries that are rich in oil and other natural resources. This is central in explaining why resource rich countries perform badly in terms of socioeconomic development. Transparency has recently been viewed as a key factor in reducing corruption and other dysfunctions in natural resource rich countries.
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    Helping people build a better world? barriers to more environmentally friendly energy production in China

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2008
    The first goal of this report is to identify and analyse changes that have happened in the Shell Group since the 1990s when energy companies started their ‘greening’ processes. These changes happened due to stricter environmental legislation, increased civil society pressure and media scrutiny.
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    Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in developed countries, economic incentives and enabling policies and regulations have
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    Planning for change: guidelines for national programmes on sustainable consumption and production

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
    In the context of climate change, it has become clear that our global community urgently needs to adopt more sustainable life-styles to both reduce the use of natural resources and CO2 emissions.
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    Sustainability as a smokescreen: the inadequacy of certifying fuels and feeds

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    Are certification schemes handling the environmental and social problems caused by vast monocultures of sugarcane and soy? This research looks at the production of sugarcane and soy in the Mercosur countries in Latin America and examines whether the existing or proposed certification systems can manage the risks associated with their production.
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    Banking for development: private banks and aid donors in developing countries

    OECD Development Centre, 2007
    Over the past decade, aid donors have shown interest for the private financial sector while, at the same time, private banks have shown increasing concern for corporate social responsibility. Private banks are actively involved in developing countries where they generate employment and introduce best practices.
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    Supermarkets and the poor in Vietnam

    Making markets work better for the poor, 2006
    The number of supermarkets in Vietnam is increasing due to government incentives, increased urbanisation and growing purchasing power. However, for price and access reasons, street vending remains the dominant retail mode. Poor consumers also often reject shopping at supermarkets because of freshness concerns. For many, supermarkets serve as pure entertainment.
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    Small suppliers in global supply chains

    Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, 2008
    MNCs are increasingly introducing programs to ensure that their suppliers uphold certain social and environmental standards. Many suppliers who deliver components or finished products – either directly or indirectly – to the MNCs are SMEs. Social and environmental requirements often put additional strains on the limited financial and human resources of such companies.
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    Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countries. This paper aims to identify critical areas to facilitate compliance with sustainability standards in coffee, which is the major traditional export crop for Tanzania.

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