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- A Review of Native American Entrepreneurial Activity
The primary scope of this research is to identify the business and entrepreneurial activity taking place in the Native American community and includes a literary review of ten articles found to be of significant importance in gathering a broader scope of how tribal entrepreneurship is succeeding and evaluating recommendations for improvement. Early on, tribal people shared a similar economy that greatly differed from the market economy of today where entrepreneurship problems loom large in Indian Country. Through this review we will gain a better understanding of where business and entrepreneurship activity stands in Native America....
Citation: Teller, John. 2010. A Review of Native American Entrepreneurial Activity (April 20). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1647445
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Indigenous People
- Acting Like Owners: Proxy Voting, Corporate Engagement and the Fiduciary Responsibilities of Pension Trustees
The paper reviews the legal and practical barriers in these areas, and provides a fiduciary framework for pension trustees to use as a guide....
Citation: Yaron, Gil. 2005. Acting Like Owners: Proxy Voting, Corporate Engagement and the Fiduciary Responsibilities of Pension Trustees (June 28). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=772184
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory - Shareholder
- Address by Mr. P.M. Anderson Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, BHP Billiton
Address by Mr. P.M. Anderson at the CIBC World Markets Mining Dinner (November 05, 2001): I would like to offer you some views on the opportunities we embrace, from my position as the CEO of a global mining company. What are the big issues facing business generally, and the mining industry in particular? How do those issues relate to corporate responsibility? What, in very specific terms, is BHP Billiton doing to provide global leadership in these areas?...
Citation: Anderson, Paul M. 2001. Address by Mr. P.M. Anderson Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, BHP Billiton. International Council on Mining & Metals.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Economic - Environmental, Leadership, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Alternative Dispute Resolution for Stakeholders in International Investment Law
This article discusses several new alternative dispute resolution (‘ADR’) mechanisms that intend to address complaints from stakeholder groups that may suffer as a consequence of foreign direct investment (‘FDI’)....
Citation: Collins, David. 2011. Alternative Dispute Resolution for Stakeholders in International Investment Law (March 16). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1788243
Areas of Interest: SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory - Stakeholder
- An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting
MSN’s analysis is based primarily on Walmex’s 2009 SRSD Report. It also relies on other, publicly available information about company policy and practice in order to supplement and compare with the company’s own reporting....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2010. An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
- An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting: Summary
The following is a summary of MSN’s report, which identifies strengths, gaps and weaknesses in Walmex’s 2009 SRSD Report, points to social and environmental performance issues that arise from consideration of the company’s CSR reporting, and puts forward a number of recommendations for improvements in policy, practice and reporting. The report also discusses some of the company’s underlying policies and practices that are of concern to outside stakeholders....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2010. An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting: Summary. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
- Apparel Production in the Americas After Quotas: Lessons from the Dominican Republic
Although price remains the main factor in sourcing decisions, brands are also concerned with guaranteeing that their products reach stores at the right time. According to brand representatives, instability in different countries also motivates brands to keep work in different countries located in different regions. For brands selling in the US market, it is quite likely that their strategies first divide suppliers into two big categories: Asia/Americas....
Citation: Traub-Werner, Marion. 2007. Apparel Production in the Americas After Quotas: Lessons from the Dominican Republic. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour
- Building a Stronger City - for us all
Over a decade ago, United Way Toronto started asking questions about the relative vitality of our city. A question that could be asked of any Canadian city — how strong are our communities?...
Citation: McIsaac, Susan. 2012. Building a Stronger City - for us all. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Economic - Social, Poverty, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Can CSR Ratings Help Improve Labour Practices in Global Supply Chains?
Can CSR ratings help improve labour practices in global supply chains?, a new paper published by the Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) and the Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER), examines the potential of rating systems to drive improvements in supply chain labour practices....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network and the Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER). 2011. Can CSR Ratings Help Improve Labour Practices in Global Supply Chains? Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour, Sustainability
- Canada's Resource Curse: Too Much of a Good Thing
The paper contends that Canada is not a simple offshoot of Anglo-American, hyper-commercial capitalism but is subject to the recurring dynamics of social Canada and for this reason the Northern market model of capitalism needs its own theoretical articulation. [...] The paper also examines the uncoupling of Canadian and American economies driven in part by the global resource boom. […] The final section addresses the dynamics of growing income polarization and its lessons for the future....
Citation: Drache, Daniel. 2009. Canada's Resource Curse: Too Much of a Good Thing. (December 1). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1645409
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Social, Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- Christ, Corporate Ethics and Occupy
The Church is directed, in its founding texts, to be concerned about economics, particularly whether economic systems operate in ways that distribute resources fairly and care for the weak and the disadvantaged, or whether they cause harm to those already suffering....
Citation: Helwig, Maggie. 2012. Christ, Corporate Ethics and Occupy. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Economic - Social, Spirituality
- Chumir Ethics Forum
The Newsletter of Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. We publish the Chumir Ethics Forum quarterly to inform supporters of our ongoing activities and discuss leading ethics topics of the day....
Citation: Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. 2001- . Chumir Ethics Forum. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Areas of Interest: Leadership
- Corporate Social and Environmental Performance and Their Relation to Financial Performance and Institutional Ownership: Empirical Evidence on Canadian Firms
This study tests empirically the relation of social and environmental performance to financial performance and institutional ownership. Utilizing four years of panel data for a sample of Canadian firms, we find a significant and positive relationship between a firm's environmental performance and its financial performance. In addition, our findings indicate a significant, positive relationship between a firm's social performance and the number of institutions owning its shares. These results partially support arguments that corporate social and environmental performance is positively related to firm success....
Citation: Mahoney, Lois and Robin W. Roberts. [Undated]. Corporate Social and Environmental Performance and Their Relation to Financial Performance and Institutional Ownership: Empirical Evidence on Canadian Firms. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=305781
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social
- Corporate Social Performance: Reporting Roundtable
The purpose of this consultation (to take place in Toronto, Canada on December 7, 2009) is to elicit the views of informed stakeholders in a review of reporting and disclosure requirements under Ontario securities legislation for corporate “social” performance. In particular, the Consultation paper considers whether existing reporting and disclosure requirements on corporate social performance are adequate. If change is advisable, the question becomes what regulatory or other measures merit consideration....
Citation: Puri, Poonam, Edward J. Waitzer, Kevin Ranney, and Michael Torrance. 2009. Corporate Social Performance: Reporting Roundtable (December 7). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1517953
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour
- Cross Listings and Corporate Governance: A Case for Regional Divergence?
Corporate cross listings represent unique occurrences of trans-regional pipelines by which corporations can effectively import/export corporate governance structures and cultures between two regionally distinct communities of practice. The precise industrial and geographical distribution of such pipelines across a multi-jurisdictional landscape will influence the degree of convergence or divergence among the associated corporate governance communities of practice....
Citation: Gray, Taylor. 2011. Cross Listings and Corporate Governance: A Case for Regional Divergence? (February 2). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1753675
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance
- Dancing with the Enemy: Overcoming Governance Challenges in International Corporate Citizenship Partnerships
In the face of increasing demands from stakeholders that they contribute to global economic, health and social development beyond the bounds of their immediate business activities, many MNCs active in developing countries have instituted corporate citizenship programs, leveraging their expertise and specialized resources in the creation of public goods....
Citation: Bhanji, Zahra, and Joanne E. Oxley. 2011. Dancing with the Enemy: Overcoming Governance Challenges in International Corporate Citizenship Partnerships (April 1, 2011). Rotman School of Management Working Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1818066
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Governance, Theory - Stakeholder
- Defining the Line Between the Public’s Right to Know and the Individual’s Right to Privacy
This study examines the news media ethical decision-making process, through interviews with journalists and journalism educators, and argues that the primary (but not exclusive) influences on the outcomes of ethical dilemmas in the newsroom are individual conscience, management leadership, and peer pressure. The study also examines future implications of technological and economic change in the media environment for the privacy issue....
Citation: Hulnick, Gail. 2001. Defining the Line Between the Publics Right to Know and the Individuals Right to Privacy. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Developing a Culture of Reporting Transparency and Accountability: The Lessons Learned from the Voluntary Sector Reporting Awards for Excellence in Financial Reporting Transparency
We find that the common theme for superior annual reports is the telling of a story that engages readers and gives them sound reasons for supporting a charity and its work. But this is not just a creative writing opportunity or an advertisement; it is an accountability document for an organization’s stakeholders that can be very much improved on as a comparison of the best practices we found across organizations shows. Hence, we discuss ten lessons that we learned in the VSRA competition about how to improve this important accountability document....
Citation: Salterio, Steven E. and Patrick Legresley. 2010. Developing a Culture of Reporting Transparency and Accountability: The Lessons Learned from the Voluntary Sector Reporting Awards for Excellence in Financial Reporting Transparency (October 6). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1722930
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance - Transparency
- Development of a Social Enterprise Typology in a Canadian Context
In an attempt to pursue the development of theory in the field of social entrepreneurship, the purpose of this paper is to present the development and assessment of a typology of Canadian social enterprises....
Citation: Brouard, Francois, Tessa Hebb and Judith Madill. 2008. Development of a Social Enterprise Typology in a Canadian Context. Working paper. Ottawa: Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. Available at http://www.carleton.ca/3ci/3ci_files/Documents/SETypologyPaper.pdf. Accessed on January 07, 2012.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Social, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Emergency Assistance, Redress and Prevention in the Hermosa Manufacturing Case
A new study prepared by the Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) for the Fair Labor Association (FLA) documents the desperate situation of former employees of the Hermosa Manufacturing facility in El Salvador, which closed in May 2005, leaving former Hermosa workers without jobs, without back wages, without severance pay, without health insurance and without employee pensions....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2007. Emergency Assistance, Redress and Prevention in the Hermosa Manufacturing Case. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour
- Ethical Responsibilities of Securities Lawyers
Perhaps the time has come for the Law Society to offer more pro-active guidance on this issue -- indicating that lawyers should (in appropriate circumstances) seek to guide their clients as to responsible conduct. Equally importantly, in a world where public expectations and legal norms are evolving rapidly, corporate boards should recognize their particular need for dispassionate and independent legal counsel....
Citation: Waitzer, Edward. 2012. Ethical Responsibilities of Securities Lawyers. Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Explicit and Implicit System of Corporate Control - A Convergence Theory of Shareholder Rights
This paper adds a dynamic perspective to the static views that presently prevail in the debate upon the convergence of ownership structures....
Citation: Zetzsche, Dirk A. 2004. Explicit and Implicit System of Corporate Control - A Convergence Theory of Shareholder Rights (September 23). CBC-RPS No. 0001. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=600722
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Theory - Shareholder
- Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics
This study examines the collective agreement tools which allow journalists to take ethical stands and which offer them some protection against retribution by their employers for their actions. It argues that those instruments can help them win day-to-day battles, but, in the long run, their status as employees subjects them, for better or for worse, to their employers ethics. It also examines whether a policy of national editorials in CanWest Global Communications Corp.s Southam newspapers constitutes a threat to diversity of ideas, editorial opinion and the news reported in those newspapers....
Citation: Bob Bergen. 2002. Exposing the Boss: A Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Labour - Employee
- Fast Food Outlet Density and the Incidence of Overweight and Obesity Across Canadian Metropolitan Areas
The increased incidence of obesity and overweight, particularly in wealthier countries, has been identified as a major public health concern. Access to fast food products has been suggested as a possible culprit. Understanding whether or not such claims have theoretical and empirical support is an important step in informing current policy debates over the use of policy interventions in addressing these dietary concerns....
Citation: Cash, Sean, Goddard, Ellen and Lacanilao, Ryan. 2007. Fast Food Outlet Density and the Incidence of Overweight and Obesity Across Canadian Metropolitan Areas (June 2007). iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=992962
Areas of Interest: Health
- Financial Theories in Practice: The Surprising Case of the Air Canada, Canadian Airlines, Onex Affair
In 1999, an intriguing series of events occurred that dramatically reshaped the Canadian airline industry. This clinical study considers these events in relation to several theoretical issues in finance to explore whether these well-accepted financial theories apply in reality. Are companies run to benefit shareholders? Is the maximization of shareholder value a key construct for publicly-traded companies? Can the market discipline the management of poorly performing companies? Do institutional shareholders aid in corporate governance by instigating corporate changes? The results of this study suggest that agency costs are real and that the goals of management are in conflict with and will often supercede those of shareholders, that, in practice, corporate governance can be severely limited even when the vast majority of board members are unrelated to the company, and that institutional shareholders may not be the disciplining force that theory suggests. Overall, the results of the study imply that managerial entrenchment is a powerful motivating force that may be impossible to counter even for a large, poorly performing corporation that is subject to a very attractive takeover offer....
Citation: Hennessey, Sean. 2001. Financial Theories in Practice: The Surprising Case of the Air Canada, Canadian Airlines, Onex Affair (August). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=282129
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Theory - Shareholder
- FLA Response to the MSN Report on Hermosa
The Fair Labor Association responded to the MSN report....
Citation: Fair Labor Association (FLA). 2007. FLA Response to the MSN Report on Hermosa. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour
- Free Trade and Women in Business in the Americas - What Role Should Women's Organizations Play?
Our objective in this paper is to bring to the attention of businesswomen's organizations in Latin America the importance of collecting data on the increasing participation of women in the economy as entrepreneurs and managers....
Citation: Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie, Brandazza, Maria Daniela and Giusti, Cecilia. [2001?]. Free Trade and Women in Business in the Americas - What Role Should Women's Organizations Play?. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=283226
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender, Labour, Public Policy - Lobbying
- Global Links: Long-Term Trends in Foreign Investment and Foreign Control in Canada, 1960 to 2000
This paper outlines broad changes in foreign ownership in Canada over the last forty years. It makes use of several different but complementary data sources that are produced by Statistics Canada to analyze the importance of foreign ownership in Canada....
Citation: Baldwin, John R., and Guy Gellatly. 2005. Global Links: Long-Term Trends in Foreign Investment and Foreign Control in Canada, 1960 to 2000. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1404731
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Global Voter Media Platform
Our existing media, both private sector and public sector, have inadequate economic incentives for serving voter interests in our democracies and shareowner interests in our corporations. As a result, we suffer from corruption and inefficient policies. To remedy this, we can create a new hybrid media sector, where organizations compete for funds allocated by voters....
Citation: Latham, Mark. 2008. Global Voter Media Platform (December 30). Vermont Law School Research Paper, Nos. 09-13. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1321490
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance - Transparency, Public Policy
- Globalization: The Path to Liberty, the Path to Captivity
In this paper, I intend to examine the forces of globalization as they relate to people, profit, politics, and the planet. In an attempt to reconcile the polarized debate over globalization, I also seek to reveal the potential that lies beneath its flaws....
Citation: Azer (Jeffrey), Alison. 2002. Globalization: The Path to Liberty, the Path to Captivity. Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Areas of Interest: Globalization
- Goldcorp and Hudbay Minerals in Guatemala
Canadian mining in Guatemala has been associated with violence and death. Opposition to an INCO mine in the El Estor region in the 1960’s resulted in the assassination of two law professors, and another activist has been killed in 2009. In the San Marcos region of Guatemala, two deaths are associated with the opening of a mine now owned by Goldcorp. Indigenous opposition to the mines continues in both regions. This article updates an article originally published in 2007which ties the events in Guatemala to efforts in Canada to hold Canadian mining companies accountable....
Citation: Maheandiran, Bernadette, Jessica DiFederico, Rolando Ernesto Aguilera, and Shin Imai. 2010. Goldcorp and Hudbay Minerals in Guatemala (April 23). Osgoode CLPE Research Paper, No. 09. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1595157
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Green reporting - Need for more standardization and Legalization
The stress on environmental issues has caused an increasing trend among companies to bring out their environmental contribution as green reports. The authors show that such reporting is still in infancy and has not developed yet in full and rigorous form as the annual company reports....
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Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada and Japan: Sector-Specific Estimates and Managerial and Economic Implications
Many firms generate large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases when they burn fossil fuels in their production processes. In addition, production of raw materials and other inputs the firms procure for their operations also generates greenhouse gases indirectly. These direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions occur in many sectors of our economies. In this paper we first present sector-specific estimates for such greenhouse gas emissions. We then show that estimates for such sector-specific greenhouse gas emissions are often required for various types of corporate as well as public policy analyses in both domestic and international contexts....
Citation: Hayami, Hitoshi and Nakamura, Masao. [undated]. Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada and Japan: Sector-Specific Estimates and Managerial and Economic Implications. Journal of Environmental Management, Forthcoming; Sauder School of Business Working Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=983362
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental
- Growing Teeth: International Law and Indigenous Sustainable Development - The Case of Negotiated Agreements
This paper begins with an outline of how and why negotiations are used in Canada to address issues respecting the utilization of the traditional lands and resources of aboriginal groups. Developments in the international law that is applicable in the regional Inter-American system respecting indigenous communal property are then examined to determine whether there is a rationale reinforced by international law for negotiated agreements....
Citation: Matiation, Stefan. 2004. Growing Teeth: International Law and Indigenous Sustainable Development - The Case of Negotiated Agreements (September 3). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=745784
Areas of Interest: Development, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Healthy Talking: Counter-Advertising Law and the Democratic Re-Construction of Food Culture to Fight Obesity and Hunger in Canada
This work argues that it is important to re-structure the legal powers of commercial expression to facilitate consumer, governmental and corporate counter-advertising in Canada....
Citation: Salazar, Alberto. 2007. Healthy Talking: Counter-Advertising Law and the Democratic Re-Construction of Food Culture to Fight Obesity and Hunger in Canada (May). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=987023
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Consumer Issues - Consumer Rights, Health, Public Policy - Regulation
- Heavy Metals in the Environment: A Geoscience Perspective. Adapted from the original work of P.E. Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Natural background concentrations and cycling processes must be known in order to assess the extent and impact of industrial releases of metals to the environment, be it on a global, regional or local scale. There is thus an urgent requirement for further research into quantifying metal emissions from both natural and industrial sources, and into the most appropriate methodologies that may be applied to obtaining increased accuracy in such estimates. A well-coordinated, systematic effort is required to collect representative information so that a better understanding of long-range atmospheric metals transport and its environmental effects can be achieved....
Citation: International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME). 1996. Heavy Metals in the Environment: A Geoscience Perspective. Adapted from the original work of P.E. Rasmussen, Ph.D. International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME).
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction
- Hedge Funds as Activist Shareholders: Passing Phenomenon or Grave-Diggers of Public Corporations?
The recent wave of corporate scandals has placed corporate executives and boards of directors in the cross hairs of public opinion. However, the tactics of some new wave investors, particularly some breed of hedge funds (which would be more aptly called speculative funds), and their relentless efforts to commoditize industrial firms may bring the investor community under closer scrutiny....
Citation: Allaire, Yvan, and Mihaela E. Firsirotu. 2007. Hedge Funds as Activist Shareholders: Passing Phenomenon or Grave-Diggers of Public Corporations? SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=961828
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory - Shareholder
- How Tax Policy and Incentives Affect Foreign Direct Investment: A Review
Morisset and Pirnia review the literature on tax policy and foreign direct investment and explore possibilities for research. They observe that tax incentives neither make up for serious deficiencies in a country's investment environment nor generate the desired externalities. Long-term strategies to improve human and physical infrastructure - and, where necessary, to streamline government policies and procedures - are more likely than incentives to attract genuine long-term investment....
Citation: Morisset, Jacques P. and Nede Pirnia. 1999. How Tax Policy and Incentives Affect Foreign Direct Investment: A Review (November 30). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2509. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=632579
Areas of Interest: Development, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment
- How Will the Global Financial Crisis Affect the Garment Industry and Garment Workers?
The global financial crisis now underway is expected to have major impacts on North American and European workers and consumers, including massive job losses and reductions in spending power. It will have even more serious consequences for workers in the global South....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2009. How Will the Global Financial Crisis Affect the Garment Industry and Garment Workers? Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Human Rights, Labour
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. An overview
ICMM has commissioned this series to describe mining and metals' contribution to sustainable development. It seeks to set out some of the more important benefits, costs, risks and responsibilities related to mining and metals in today's world. The first publication in the series - Mining's contribution to sustainable development: an overview - provides an introduction to the series and introduces the concept of contribution analysis....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012.InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. An overview. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. Human rights, social development and the mining and metals industry
This is one of a series of publications commissioned by ICMM to highlight the sector's role in modern society. There is international consensus that business has a responsibility to respect human rights, distinct from a state's duty to protect and help realize the rights of its citizens. This paper argues that the mining and metals sector also has an extraordinary potential to contribute to the realization of human rights by playing an important role in social development and poverty alleviation....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012. InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. Human rights, social development and the mining and metals industry. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Development, Human Rights, Poverty, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of minerals and metals
The mining and metals industry is well placed to contribute to the resolution of the climate change challenge. Many mining and metals companies are measuring, managing and reducing their own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. More significantly the industry is also supplying the materials needed to build a low carbon future. This latter role is less well understood and is the focus of this publication. A range of technologies exist to reduce the emissions intensity of power generation, including renewables and carbon capture and storage (CCS)....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012. InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of minerals and metals. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of mining in national economies
In 2010, the value of global minerals production was four times higher than in 2002. At the same time, there are 40 countries with significant dependence on mineral exports. Thirty of those are low or middle income countries and many have low Human Development Index scores. This data demonstrates that mining has a significant and growing role to play in economic development in general and poverty reduction in particular....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012. InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of mining in national economies. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Development, Poverty, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. Trends in the mining and metals industry
This InBrief provides a forward looking discussion of trends likely to govern the evolution of the industry over the next decade....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012. InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. Trends in the mining and metals industry. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Development, Resource Extraction, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Income Inequality and Economic Disparity
In considering the closely-related contemporary issues of income inequality and economic disparity, I shall focus at the outset on the U.S. This is because the problem there is both advanced and well documented. Here in Canada, the problem is considerably milder, though growing in severity....
Citation: Dimma, William A. 2012. Income Inequality and Economic Disparity. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Social, Public Policy - Regulation
- Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using census data from the three largest developed countries in the world receiving Indian immigrants - the United States, United Kingdom and Canada - the authors examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and the causes of their success....
Citation: Fairlie, Robert W., Krashinsky, Harry A., Zissimopoulos, Julie M. and Kumar, Krishna. 2009. Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom (December 31). RAND Working Paper Series WR- 727. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1533487
Areas of Interest: Labour
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