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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476453
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592943
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913182
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776573
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Approaches to supporting local and community development : the view from Zambia
Mondoloka, Angel - 2017
Mining is the largest sector of the Zambian economy but, as has been the case elsewhere, the relationship between mining companies and their host communities has been fractious, without a clear path towards sustainability. The severe social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607491
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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements : cross-country and intertemporal comparisons
Luongo, Patrizia - 2015
Assessment PISA, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 are exploited to perform a cross-country and intertemporal comparison of fairness in … education. The cross-country comparison shows that none of the countries outperform in both components of fairness, whereas the … intertemporal comparison shows that few countries have moved towards a greater degree of equality of opportunity all the while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511256
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Reference groups and the poverty line : an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration
Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015
A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462538
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Urban settlement : data, measures, and trends
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Fink, Guenther; … - 2010
This paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources, and highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of urban populations across countries and over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660857
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Country role models : synthesis of Ireland, Japan and Switzerland
Findlay, Ronald - 2010
This paper provides a synthesis of the three papers on the non-Nordic developed economies, Ireland, Japan and Switzerland along the following themes: role of the state, openness, education and human capital, and macroeconomic stability. It then draws lessons for developing countries of today. --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662170