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Mohanti, Subhash - eSocialSciences - 2011

Review of Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present and Future by Sanjay Kumar Panda; The Icfai University Press; 373pp, 2008.

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Negotiating the Terms of A New Social Contract: Private Companies, Civil Society and the State in India

Krichewsky, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010

A detailed analysis of the stakes and dynamics at play in the public, civil and self-regulation of companies in India is offered. With the rapid growth and modernization of the country as the backdrop, this paper points towards a reconfiguration of relationships and the balance of power among...

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Challenges Facing Fair Trade: Which Way Now?

Tallontire, Anne - eSocialSciences - 2007

Approaching maturity, Fair Trade faces challenges at both ends of the supply chain, reflecting the dual roles of Fair Trade as a business and development instrument. Who should supply the Fair Trade market, what support do producers require and what is the impact of the relationship between Fair...

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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...

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Frontier Issues on the Global Agenda- Emerging Economy Perspective

Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011

The article is a report of RBI Minister Duvvuri Subbarao on issuesing concerning the G-20 countries and also issues effecting all the countries collectively.

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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?

Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...

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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011

The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the period 1960 to the late 1980s, Indiaâ€™s GDP in US...

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Impact of Trade Liberalization on Returns from Land: A Regional Study of Indian Agriculture

Ghosh, Nilabja - eSocialSciences - 2010

Trade liberalization, by aligning domestic prices with world prices, is envisaged to bring welfare gains to a country. In the case of Indian agriculture, owing to the vastness and diversity of the sector, the impact is likely to be profoundly unequal across regions especially when liberalization...

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Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from within China

Lu, Ming; Wan, Guanghua; Chen, Zhao - eSocialSciences - 2010

aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper … discusses Chinaâ€™s globalization process and estimates an income generating function, incorporating trade and FDI variables. It … then applies the newly developed shapley value decomposition technique to quantify the contributions of globalization …

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Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?

Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010

The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the …

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