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- Breaking the Cycle of Urban Poverty
Millions of people around the world live in informal urban communities where a lack of resources leads to degradation of the environment. Deteriorating environmental conditions, in turn, create more p...
Citation: Dale, Stephen. 2008. Breaking the Cycle of Urban Poverty: IDRC.
Areas of Interest: Development, Health, Poverty
- Building a Stronger City - for us all
Over a decade ago, United Way Toronto started asking questions about the relative vitality of our city. A question that could be asked of any Canadian city — how strong are our communities?...
Citation: McIsaac, Susan. 2012. Building a Stronger City - for us all. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Economic - Social, Poverty, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Business Ethics
This book provides comprehensive, integrated coverage of the entire field of business ethics. It begins with an overview of today's business scene, then explores the basic tools and techniques of ethi...
Citation: DeGeorge, Richard T. 1999. Business Ethics. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty, Theory
- Canada: Development Assistance Committee. Peer Review
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development undertakes regular peer reviews on the practices of member countries' development policies and practices. This report discusses the strengths...
Citation: Canada: Development Assistance Committee. Peer Review. 2007. Development Assistance Committee, OECD.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Development, Poverty
- Corporate Governance
Corporate governance (CG) is one of the most talked about topics in business, indeed in society, today. A Google search revealed 513 news citations during a single week in June 2006. Most academics, b...
Citation: Social Entrepreneurship. 2006. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Consumer Issues, Development, Economic - Social, Gender, Globalization, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Diamonds: Forever or for Good? The Economic Impact of Diamonds in Southern Africa
Investigates the extent to which diamonds contribute to development in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, countries which have been the most vocal champions of "prosperity diamonds" or "diamonds for...
Citation: Ralph Hazleton. 2002. No Problems Here: Success, Complacency and Suspicion in the Indian Diamond Industry. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Poverty, Resource Extraction
- Doing Business with the World – The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development
Poverty remains the main challenge facing the countries that will be the home of 85% of the world's population in the decades to come. Some 2.7 billion people worldwide continue to subsist on less than US$2 per day. The challenge facing the global communi...
Citation: World Business Council for Sustainable Development. 2007. Doing Business with the World - The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development. World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Areas of Interest: Development, Education, Globalization, Health - Healthcare, Poverty, Public Policy, Sustainability
- Engaging Business in Development. Results of an International Benchmarking Study
This study examines ways of engaging business in development through Public Private Partnerships (PPP). It highlights areas of best practice and likely advances for the partnership tool in development...
Citation: A. Binder; M. Palenberg; J.M. Witte; A. Binder; M. Palenberg; J.M. Witte. 2007. Engaging Business in Development. Results of an International Benchmarking Study. Global Public Policy Institute. GPPi Research Paper Series No. 8.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Globalization, Poverty, Public Policy, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions
This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often...
Citation: Bernadette P. Resurreccion; Rebecca Elmhirst. 2008. Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Gender, Poverty, Resource Extraction
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. Human rights, social development and the mining and metals industry
This is one of a series of publications commissioned by ICMM to highlight the sector's role in modern society. There is international consensus that business has a responsibility to respect human rights, distinct from a state's duty to protect and help realize the rights of its citizens. This paper argues that the mining and metals sector also has an extraordinary potential to contribute to the realization of human rights by playing an important role in social development and poverty alleviation....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012. InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. Human rights, social development and the mining and metals industry. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Development, Human Rights, Poverty, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of mining in national economies
In 2010, the value of global minerals production was four times higher than in 2002. At the same time, there are 40 countries with significant dependence on mineral exports. Thirty of those are low or middle income countries and many have low Human Development Index scores. This data demonstrates that mining has a significant and growing role to play in economic development in general and poverty reduction in particular....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012. InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of mining in national economies. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Development, Poverty, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Just Business Practices in a Diverse and Developing World
In a world unbalanced by extensive poverty, divided by conflicting interests and contrasting moral traditions, what difference can international businesses make? This book addresses this urgent concer...
Citation: Dashwood, Hevina S. 2006. Just Business Practices in a Diverse and Developing World. Edited by B. a. M. Velasquez. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Globalization, Labour - Employee, Poverty, Resource Extraction
- Management Ethics [Summer, 2010]
Editorial; Speakers' Corner; Microfinance; A World Apart?; New EthicsCentre Member; Accounting for CSR and Sustainable Development in South Africa...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2010. Management Ethics, Summer. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Poverty, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Mining: Partnerships for Development Toolkit
The Toolkit focuses on six thematic areas where previous work has indicated the potential for partnerships between companies and other stakeholders to enhance the positive contribution and minimize negative impacts: 1. mining and poverty reduction, 2. mining and economic development: revenue management, 3. mining and economic development: regional development planning, 4. mining and economic development: local content, 5. mining and social investment and 6. mining and disputes resolution....
Citation: Sharp-Paul, Alastair and Liz Jacobsen. 2011. Mining: Partnerships for Development Toolkit. International Council on Mining & Metals.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Social, Poverty, Resource Extraction, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Motherhood, Apple Pie and False Teeth: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Diamond Industry
Argues that ending the phenomenon of conflict diamonds now and in the future still requires considerable work. Corporate social responsibility in the diamond industry is not about making donations to...
Citation: Ian Smillie. 2003. Diamonds in the Central African Republic: Trading, Valuing and Laundering. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Economic, Poverty, Resource Extraction
- Oil Extraction and Poverty Reduction in the Niger Delta: A Critical Examination of Partnership Initiatives
The combination of corporate-community conflicts and oil transnational corporations’ (TNCs) rhetoric about being socially responsible has meant that the issue of community development and poverty redu...
Citation: Idemudia, Uwafiokun. 2008. Oil Extraction and Poverty Reduction in the Niger Delta: A Critical Examination of Partnership Initiatives. Journal of Business Ethics:26.
Areas of Interest: Development, Poverty, Resource Extraction
- Political Risk Report 2009
Maplecroft launches it first-of-its-kind assessment of political risk at the national and sub-national site-specific level...
Citation: Political Risk Report 2009. 2009. Maplecroft.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Poverty
- Social Accountability International (SAI) Annual Report 2010
SAI's latest Annual Report features stories from their programs and highlights accomplishments and challenges in Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India and Nicaragua as SAI and their partners work to win respect for the human rights of workers....
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Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Economic - Social, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Social Capital in Firm--Stakeholder Networks
Corporations can contribute to sustainable development goals such as poverty reduction by bringing linking social capital into community and stakeholder networks. Often their well-intentioned efforts produce disappointing results because they encounter a...
Citation: Boutilier, Robert G. 2007. Social Capital in Firm--Stakeholder Networks. Journal of Corporate Citizenship (26):121-134.
Areas of Interest: Development, Poverty, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Sustainable Livelihoods and the Private Sector: CIDA's Role in Strengthening Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks
We assert that in many cases, poverty alleviation is best addressed by the establishment of sustainable livelihoods for the poor. Sustainable livelihoods may (in turn) best be created through support for 'Sustainable Local Enterprise' (SLE) Networks....
Citation: McKague, Kevin; Wheeler, David; Thomson, Jane. 2003. Sustainable Livelihoods and the Private Sector: How Development Agencies Can Strengthen Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks. Schulich School of Business, York University.
Areas of Interest: Development, Poverty, Sustainability
- The Impact of Poverty on Health - A Scan of Research Literature
This paper assesses the status of poverty and health in Canada through various measurments and concepts of Social Economic Status (SES) since February 2002. It discusses the extent of inequality and d...
Citation: Phipps, S. 2003. The Impact of Poverty on Health - A Scan of Research Literature: Canadian Population Health Initiative.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Gender, Health, Labour, Labour - Employee, Poverty, Public Policy
- Through Children's Eyes
How do children perceive environmental issues in their community? In this audio slideshow, former IDRC intern Sarah McCans describes the innovative project she undertook, working with children in Kamp...
Citation: McCans, Sarah. 2008. Through Children's Eyes: IDRC.
Areas of Interest: Health, Poverty
- Working to Meet the Needs of People at the Base of the Economic Pyramid through Private Sector Investments
This report presents the results of a comprehensive external and internal scan of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) with respect to opportunities to improving development outcomes for people...
Citation: McKague, Kevin. 2005. Working to Meet the Needs of People at the Base of the Economic Pyramid through Private Sector Investments. Washington: International Finance Corporation.
Areas of Interest: Development, Poverty, SRI/Responsible Investment
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