Welcome to Development in Practice

Volume 15, Numbers 3&4

• Editorial
  • Editorial 15(3&4)
    Eade, Deborah
• Guest Editorial
  • Guest Editorial
    Sayer, John
• Articles
  • Is foreign direct investment good for the poor? A review and stocktake
    Sumner, Andrew
  • Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy
    Hall, David; Lobina Emanuele; de la Motte, Robin
  • Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina
    Rodríguez-Boetsch, Leopoldo
  • Public-private partnership (PPP) and water-supply provision in urban Africa: the experience of Congo-Brazzaville
    Tati, Gabriel
  • How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia
    Marr, Ana; Chancellor, Tim
  • An institutional approach to service-provision partnerships in South Asia
    Taylor, Kevin
  • Private sector development in a transition economy: the case of Vietnam
    Schaumburg-Müller, Henrik
  • In whose name? The accountability of corporate social responsibility
    Bendell, Jem
  • Corporate responsibility and the movement of business
    Utting, Peter
  • Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies
    Garvey, Niamh; Newell, Peter
  • Corporate responsibility or core competence?
    Hayes, Barbara; Walker, Bridget
  • Business economic impacts: the new frontier for Corporate Accountability
    Campbell, Helen
  • Corporate social responsibility: a challenge for the donor community
    Frame, Bob
  • Corporate citizenship: creating social capacity in developing countries
    Goddard, Trevor
  • Size matters: the need for human-scale economic institutions for development
    Oram, Julian; Doane Deborah
  • A critique of design methodologies appropriate to private sector activity in development
    Coward, Tim; Fathers, James
  • Enhancing competitiveness and securing equitable development: can small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do the trick?
    Jeppesen, Soeren
  • Facilitated inter-firm collaboration in Ghana: the case of Danida's Private Sector Development Projects
    Kuada, John; Sørensen, Olav Jull
  • Private funding of microcredit schemes: much ado about nothing?
    Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña
  • Post-conflict pro-poor private sector development: the case of Timor-Leste
    Kusago, Takayoshi
  • Java furniture makers: globalisation winners or losers?
    Loebis, Lienda; Schmitz, Hubert
  • The World Bank's land of kiosks: Community Driven Development in Timor-Leste
    Moxham, Ben
  • Managing ethical standards: when rhetoric meets reality
    Dhanarajan, Sumi
  • What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
    Nelson, Valerie; Martin, Adrienne; Ewert, Joachim
  • Leveraging change in the working conditions of UK homeworkers
    Williams, Peter
  • Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture
    Tallontire, Anne; Dolan, Catherine; Smith, Sally; Barrientos, Stephanie
  • Corporate responsibility and the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): are they compatible?
    Quinteros, Carolina
  • Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua
    Utting-Chamorro, Karla
  • Partnering for sustainability: business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry
    Linton April
• Book Reviews

Corporate responsibility and the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): are they compatible?

Quinteros, Carolina

The global garment-manufacturing industry will confront significant changes from 2005, when the system of quotas established under the Multi-Fibre Agreement comes to an end. These changes pose serious threats to jobs in the Central American assembly plants, or maquila industry. One possibility, however, is that `politically correct' consumption could provide a niche market for firms that are committed to corporate social responsibility and the respect for human rights, and that this might even be a way to improve working conditions in the region. In this sense, notwithstanding the grave risks it represents for the very poorest, the market could serve to bring about changes favourable to working people.

Keywords: Globalisation; Labour and livelihoods; Gender and diversity; Latin America and the Caribbean; North America

   

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