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Volume 15, numbers 3&4

Editorial Deborah Eade

Guest editor's introduction: Do more good, do less harm: development and the private sector John Sayer

Articles

SECTION 1: Investing in development?

Is foreign direct investment good for the poor? A review and stocktake
Andrew Sumner

Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy
David Hall, Emanuele Lobina, and Robin de la Motte

Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina
Leopoldo Rodríguez-Boetsch

Public-private partnership (PPP) and water-supply provision in urban Africa: the experience of Congo-Brazzaville
Gabriel Tati

How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia
Ana Marr and Tim Chancellor

An institutional approach to service-provision partnerships in South Asia
Kevin Tayler

Private sector development in a transition economy: the case of Vietnam
Henrik Schaumburg-Müller

SECTION 2: Calling companies to account: beyond corporate social responsibility

In whose name? The accountability of corporate social responsibility
Jem Bendell

Corporate responsibility and the movement of business
Peter Utting

Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies
Niamh Garvey and Peter Newell

Corporate responsibility or core competence?
Barbara Hayes and Bridget Walker

Business economic impacts: the new frontier for Corporate Accountability
Helen Campbell

Corporate social responsibility: a challenge for the donor community
Bob Frame

Corporate citizenship: creating social capacity in developing countries
Trevor Goddard

SECTION 3: Getting down to business: promoting small-scale enterprises

Size matters: the need for human-scale economic institutions for development
Julian Oram and Deborah Doane

A critique of design methodologies appropriate to private sector activity in development
Tim Coward and James Fathers

Enhancing competitiveness and securing equitable development: can small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do the trick?
Soeren Jeppesen

Facilitated inter-firm collaboration in Ghana: the case of Danida’s Private Sector Development Projects
John Kuada and Olav Jull Sørensen

Private funding of microcredit schemes: much ado about nothing?
Begoña Gutiérrez Nieto

Post-conflict pro-poor private sector development: the case of Timor-Leste
Takayoshi Kusago

Java furniture makers: globalisation winners or losers?
Lienda Loebis and Hubert Schmitz

The World Bank’s land of kiosks: Community Driven Development in Timor-Leste
Ben Moxham

SECTION 4: Pressure for change: fair trade and ethical codes of conduct

Managing ethical standards: when rhetoric meets reality
Sumi Dhanarajan

What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
Valerie Nelson, Adrienne Martin, and Joachim Ewert

Leveraging change in the working conditions of UK homeworkers
Peter Williams

Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture
Anne Tallontire, Catherine Dolan, Sally Smith, and Stephanie Barrientos

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

Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua
Karla Utting-Chamorro

Partnering for sustainability: business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry
April Linton

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