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Can Ethical Trade Certification Contribute to the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals? A Review of Organic and Fair-trade Certification
Setboonsarng, Sununtar - eSocialSciences - 2009
The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045002
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No Through Road: The Limitations of Food Miles
Wynen, Els; Vanzetti, David - eSocialSciences - 2009
The focus of this paper is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As the concept of food miles has been an issue in organic agriculture since before the early 1990s, many of the examples quoted in this paper are from that sector. It is argued in...
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Economic and Financial Developments in Goa
Mohanty, Deepak - eSocialSciences - 2011
Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank are outlined. Policy challenges ahead...
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E-Commerce and Digital Divide: Impact on Consumers
Rao, T.P. Rama - eSocialSciences - 2010
developments in the Information and Communication Technology can be gainfully employed in social development and in bridging the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751878
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Regulation in Health Care in Tamil Nadu (India): A study of the Implementation of Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) 1994, and Consumer Protection Act (CPA) 1986
Muraleedharan, Vangal R; Prasad, S Ram - eSocialSciences - 2010
The functioning of healthcare sector could be substantially influenced by the design and implementation of regulatory policies that govern the behaviour of various stakeholders. The empirical challenge is to assess whether and how far have regulations brought about “desirable and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008643727
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Is There a Global Bioethics? End-of-Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference
Stonington, Scott; Ratanakul, Pinit - eSocialSciences - 2007
As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insuffi cient to solve the problems that arise in the practice of allopathic medicine in...
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Ethics and the World of Finance
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2009
How do we, as individuals, approach issues of ethics and values? Are our approaches different in our personal and … professional lives? Are issues of ethics different in the financial sector? What are the ethical issues thrown up by the current …? Some of these questions are addressed here. [Keynote address at the Conference on ‘Ethics and the World of Financeâ …
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Ethics Without Borders
eSocialSciences; Plos medicine Editors - 2009
The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic. It discusses particularly the role of journals when papers arising from such research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250402
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Book Review: This is Water: The Ethics of Memory
Barker, Jeffrey H. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This review of Avishai Margalit's The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, 2004. New York) explores the ethical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250524
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Ethics in Health Research: A Social Science Perspective
Jaitly, Tejal Barai; Jesani, Amar - eSocialSciences - 2007
in ethics in the social sciences. Some papers elaborate on practitioners’ experiences that illustrate these principles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487571