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Development and the Private Sector
Contributors to this volume examine the impact of the private sector on development, whether through core business practices, corporate responsibility endeavors, or philanthropic activities. Chapters:
Calling Business to Account: Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility
1: In whose name? The accountability of corporate social responsibility
2: Corporate responsibility and the movement of business
3: Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies
Investing in Development?
4: Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy
5: Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina
6: Size matters: the need for human-scale economic institutions for development
7: Java furniture makers: winners or losers from globalisation?
8: The World Bank’s land of kiosks: Community Driven Development in Timor-Leste
Pressure for Change: Fair Trade and Ethical Codes of Conduct
9: Managing ethical standards: when rhetoric meets reality
10: Corporate responsibility and the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): are they compatible?
11: Partnering for sustainability: business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry
12: Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture