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Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016
Using a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility. We find a positive relationship between adoption of corporate social responsibility initiatives and...
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The transmission of socially responsible behaviour through international trade
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016
We investigate the relationship between the corporate social responsibility practices of local domestic firms and their engagement with foreign markets using four waves of panel data on a sample of more than 4,500 manufacturing firms from Viet Nam. We develop a measure of corporate social...
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Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh
Raihan, Selim; Khan, Sunera Saba - 2020
The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of … overwhelmingly salient component of Bangladesh's export composition, this is due primarily to the rapid expansion of the ready … Bangladesh economy, aiming to tackle inequality and promote inclusive growth. …
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Pulling up or binding down : a review of upgrading trajectories in apparel and agroprocessing global value chains for developing countries
Pasquali, Giovanni; Krishnan, Aarti; Engel, Jakob - 2021
There exist a plethora of developing country value chain studies based on a variety of methodological approaches, both in the academic literature and through policy reports. However, there has been little systematic synthesis of the findings and approaches taken in these studies. This study...
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Innovation efforts in developing countries : the case of Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises
Son Thi Kim Le - 2019
The identification of potential innovation efforts plays an important role in evaluating the innovation process. The innovation efforts of firms in developing countries might be different to those of Western enterprises. This paper evaluates innovation processes in developing countries,...
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Mobile internet and income improvement : evidence from Viet Nam
Trang Thi Pham - 2023
New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive...
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Protecting the environment during and after resource extraction
Bell, Ruth Greenspan - 2017
Natural resources extraction inevitably imposes environmental injuries including diversion of scarce water away from pressing local needs, disruption of fragile ecosystems, and longer-range and often irreparable harm. These fall most forcefully on the local populations at or near the extraction...
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What are the prospects for Mozambique to diversify its economy on the back of "local content"?
Dietsche, Evelyn; Esteves, Ana Maria - 2018
In recent years, Mozambique has made international headlines for the significant hydrocarbon deposits found offshore. These have increased the country's extractive resource endowments, in addition to its mining and onshore natural gas sector. It is expected that these industries will contribute...
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Oil and gas companies and the management of social and environmental impacts and issues : the evolution of the industry's approach
Tomlinson, Kathryn - 2017
This paper provides an overview of social and environmental management practices in the oil and gas industry. It outlines the evolution of international oil companies' approaches over the last 20 years, reviews what social and environmental management amongst such companies means in practice,...
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Spreading the gains? : prospects and policies for the development of regional value chains in Southern Africa
Black, Anthony H.; Edwards, Lawrence; Ismail, Faizel; … - 2019
Regional integration is making steady progress in Africa and a key objective is to improve the prospects for industrialization by expanding the regional market. This paper draws on a combination of trade data analysis and industry case studies to better understand the links and synergies between...
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