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