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A Corporate Governance Model : Building Responsible Boards and Sustainable Businesses
World Bank - 2012
The foundation of good corporate governance is the intellectual honesty of directors and senior management. This intellectual honesty is expressed by acting in the best interests of the incapacitated company. The company, on formation, is a person, but it is absolutely incapacitated until its...
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Corporate Responsibility
World Bank - 2012
Activists are often unhappy with the laws governing business behavior and with their enforcement. One strategy they use to alter the behavior of corporations is to target not the laws but the corporations, hoping that they will change without being legally obliged to. Sometimes firms do, because...
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Towards Sustainable Mineral-Intensive Growth in Orissa : Managing Environmental and Social Impacts
World Bank - 2012
The study's objective was to support the socio-economic development program of the Government of Orissa by helping to analyze and formulate practical strategies for strengthening an institutional and regulatory framework with respect to managing the environmental and social impacts of...
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Stakeholder Assessment of Opportunities and Constraints to Sustainable Land Management in Ethiopia
World Bank - 2012
Stakeholders' perceptions of opportunities and constraints to sustainable land management in Ethiopia was assessed through interviews and a review of secondary data. Stakeholders included farmers as well as representatives of development agencies, agricultural organizations, donors,...
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Sustainable land management sourcebook
2008
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Green MiniAtlas
World Bank - 2012
Based on the World Bank's World Development Indicators and the Little Green Data Book, the Green miniAtlas complements … the miniAtlas of Global Development previously published by the World Bank. The information in the Green miniAtlas is a …
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Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook
World Bank - 2012
This sourcebook is intended to be a ready reference for practitioners (including World Bank stakeholders, clients in … borrowing countries, and World Bank project leaders) seeking state-of-the-art information about good land management approaches …
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Corporate responses to HIV/AIDS : case studies from India
2007
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Strengthening the Citizen-State Compact through Feedback : Effective Complaint Management as a Pathway to Articulate Citizen Voice and Improve State Response
World Bank - 2016
World Bank-financed projects, as well as the DGC. This summary report synthesizes key findings that have emerged throughout … Assistance Strategy FY15-16 for the West Bank and Gaza. The report is structured as follows: Part two presents the context; Part …
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The World Bank's Early Support to Addressing Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health and Social Response - An Early-Stage Evaluation
World Bank - 2022
This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps … Evaluation Group evaluation looks at the World Bank Group support to address the economic implications of the pandemic. To assess … recommendations for ensuring stronger future preparedness: (i) Use the World Bank's crisis recovery efforts to strengthen the …
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