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Globalisation, Transnational Corporations and Human Rights - A New Paradigm

Westaway, Jennifer A. - 2011

There can be no doubt that the primary beneficiaries of globalisation have been transnational corporations which have seen new rules of economic engagement allow for a widening of trade and manufacturing opportunities. These new rules have been aided by challenges to the established principles...

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Book Review to Muhammad Yunus - Creating a World Without Poverty (2008)

Reggiani, Tommaso - 2011

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings...

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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

that are essential to reclaiming the right to food as a relevant normative framework under economic globalization …

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Transgenic Crops in Developing Countries - Can New Business Models Make a Difference in Fostering Sustainability and Mitigating Non-Technological Risks from Innovation?

Hahn, Rüdiger - 2014

Risks and opportunities of innovations in transgenic crops are subject of heated debates. While the scientific evaluation is largely positive, public perception remains skeptical. Besides technological issues, non-technological risks such as potential destabilization of traditional agro-systems,...

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Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Developing Countries : Property Rights and CSR

Cuffaro, Nadia - 2013

The current wave of land acquisitions in developing countries differs from past trends because of the speed and magnitude of FDI flows. The main risk is the insufficient legal protection of land users, especially women. Insecure property rights are also a significant risk factor for investors....

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'Land Grabbing' in Developing Countries : Foreign Investors, Regulation and Codes of Conduct

Cuffaro, Nadia - 2013

The paper discusses the recent developments of FDI in land in developing countries. Two issues are analyzed: the first is the available evidence on the so called “land grab” and the associated question of the role of control on land in the internationalisation of developing countries...

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Reviewing a Decade of Research on the 'Base/Bottom of the Pyramid' (BOP) Concept

Kolk, Ans; Rivera-Santos, Miguel; Rufin, Carlos R. - 2013

In 1998-1999, Prahalad and colleagues introduced the Base/Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) concept in an article and a working paper. This article’s goal is to answer the question: What has become of the concept over the decade following its first systematic exposition in 1999? To answer this...

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A Biblical basis for localization

Beed, Clive; Beed, Cara - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) August, pp. 802-817

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a Biblical basis for localization as against globalization. This … Biblical teaching is in favour of localization rather then dispersal (and thereby globalization) has not been made previously … widespread acceptance of globalization. …

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Globalization, Poverty Inequality and Sustainable Livelihood Diversification in Third World Countries : A Review

Al-Amin, Abul Quasem - 2014

It has been widely accepted that economic globalization is inevitable, and that globalization plays an increasingly … in globalization is directly or indirectly responsible for economic degradation due to welfare loss and poverty … inequality. This paper discusses the third world's globalization process incorporating poverty inequality and reviews of …

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Globalization and productivity : a survey of firm-level analysis

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kimura, Fukunari; Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

Recent empirical studies which utilize plant- or establishment-level data to examine globalization's impact on … productivity have discovered many causal mechanisms involved in globalization's impact on firms' productivity. Since these pathways … globalization become visible. This strategy is useful for detecting missing links within and across the existing studies as well as …

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