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Trade and Poverty: Is There a Connection?
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Trade and Poverty: Is There a Connection?, a research based article produced for the World Trade Organisation, discusses if there is a connection between trade and poverty. Openness and trade liberalisation are now seen by many as key components of the national policy policy required for economic...
Interserve International
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Through its offices in 17 different countries/regions, Interserve International sends Christian volunteers to work in the developing regions of Asia (South, Central and East) and the Arab World. In general, Interserve supports both long and short term volunteers in areas such as administration,...
Business Call to Action
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The Business Call to Action (BCTA) is a focal point for mobilising the efforts of companies to contribute to the MDGs through their core business expertise. A key aspect of this initiative is to encourage companies dealing with developing countries to adapt their business models to help improve the...
Make Poverty Business
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This book provides methods of bridging the gap by constructing a rigorous profit-making argument for multinational corporations to do more business with the poor. The book should be read by international business managers seeking to increase profits and decrease risk in developing countries, and by...
Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the poor
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Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the Poor, an issue of Development Outreach published by the World Bank Institute, discusses how companies can operate profitably in emerging market economies, while enhancing the well-being of the poor by nurturing them as producers and consumers. The...
Millennium Development Goal 8: Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the MDGs
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Millennium Development Goal 8: Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the MDGs, a report of the MDG Gap Task Force, was prepared for improving the monitoring of MDG-8. More than 20 UN agencies are represented in the Task Force, including the World Bank and the IMF, as well as the OECD...
UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples
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UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples, a series of web pages, details UNICEF's corporate partnerships with a range of companies.
Workwithus.org Conference Listings
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Scotland's voluntary sector website provides listings of conferences related to NGOs.
ACFID Code of Conduct
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The ACFID Code of Conduct is a voluntary, self regulatory industry code for non government development organisations.
G3 Guidelines of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework
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The G3 Guidelines of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework provide guidance for organisations to use as the basis for disclosure about their sustainability performance (organisation’s economic, environmental, and social performance), and also provide stakeholders a universally-applicable,...
International Non Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter
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International Non Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter resulted from a gathering of INGOs to systematise and reduce the number of structures NGOs must respond to. The INGOs who are signatories to the Charter agree to abide by the following principles: respect for universal principles,...
Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business
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Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business aims to provide practical guidance on CSR to companies operating in the international context. It contains information on how to assess the effects of business activities on others, develop and implement a CSR strategy and...
Quality and Accountability Initiatives: Questions and Answers
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Quality and Accountability Initiatives: Questions and Answers, a web resource page, speaks to four of the most widely known inter-agency initiatives to improve accountability, quality and performance in humanitarian action: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian...
Equator Principles
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The Equator Principles (EPs) are a credit risk management framework for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in project finance transactions. Project finance is often used to fund the development and construction of major infrastructure and industrial projects.The EPs...
Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor
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Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor, a report to the UN Secretary-General, addresses how the potential of the private sector and entrepreneurship can be unleashed in developing countries, and how the existing private sector can be engaged in meeting this challenge. The...
Malaysia NGO Directory
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Malaysia NGO Directory, maintained by Mesara.net, provides ionline nformations and details about Malaysian NGOs.
Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study
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Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study, a WTO news article published in 2000, reports a study published by WTO Secretariat that finds that trade liberalisation helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones and that this faster economic growth helps to alleviate poverty.
UN rapporteur and WTO head debate the impact of trade on hunger
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UN rapporteur and WTO head debate the impact of trade on hunger, a news article, reports on the debate on the impact of trade on hunger between UN rapporteur and WTO head. Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, argued that agricultural trade liberalisation hampers...
Iran's Export-Import Regulations
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This is an internet directory which lists rules and regulations for importing and exporting goods in Iran. It provides internet resources on conditions and regulations in Iran.
Implementing sustainable private sector development: Striving for tangible results for the poor
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The key challenge for private sector development in 2006 is showing tangible, significant results in poverty eradication. Donors, researchers and practitioners have been challenged to focus on making markets work for the poor to consider the underlying rationale of market development strategies and...