The negative external effects of profit orientated businesses on the environment and society are most visible and destructive in developing countries, where compensation measures for adversely affected groups rarely exist and where high corruption rates often impede meaningful enforcement of...

This study will focus on the programming period 2000-2006, analysing financial management and control issues in relation with the ESF measures implemented in the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom representing some 20% of total ESF resources. To date, there is limited evidence of the...

Some financial products facilitate (“Financial Instruments”’) the use of voting rights that can be considered questionable under the law (“Questionable Uses of Voting Rights”). These Questionable Uses of Voting Rights become apparent when, using the Financial Instruments, an investor...