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- Corporate citizenship: creating social capacity in developing countries
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A corporation has only limited ability to create social capital through philanthropic activity, and in the context of a decline in official aid, the corporate sector is increasingly assuming a de facto developmental role. The presence of social capital as ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- NGOs in a Global Future
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This international NGO conference was held in Birmingham, England, in January 1999, to explore `the opportunities for civic action that global trends are creating for NGOs.' Discussions around NGOs and aid, capacity building, civil society, social capital ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models
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Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The conseq ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- The Corporate Responsibility Code Book
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Author: Leipziger, Deborah Publisher: Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003, I ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction
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Author: Batliwala, Srilatha and L. David Brown (eds.) Publisher: Bloomfield, C ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:51
- Corporate responsibility and the movement of business
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The corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda has taken off since the 1980s, with both civil society and business actors involved in mobilising around it. This paper examines the reasons for civil society mobilisation on CSR issues, the types of organi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50
- Knowledge and learning in online networks in development: a social capital perspective
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The paper examines whether the concept of social capital can facilitate our understanding of online networks in development. Much of the knowledge generation and social learning in development takes place in networks, which are increasingly online. Althou ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Globalization and the Third World: A Study of Negative Consequences
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Author: Ghosh, B.N. and Halil M. Guven (eds.) Publisher: Basingstoke: Palgrave ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-05 18:38
- The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka
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Author: Kabeer, Naila Publisher: London: Verso, 2002, ISBN: 1 85984 206 2, 320 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Which instruments best tackle food price instability in developing countries?
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The food crisis of 2007–08 and the urban riots that ensued in some 40 developing countries placed the question of food price instability at the heart of policy debates. Since the 1980s, the prevailing idea has been that the best solution is managi ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:18
