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Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development:

Is Business the Solution?
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Earthscan, 2007 - Business & Economics - 243 pages
'Set to become a seminal work on the subject.' African Business The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective then it seems that the solution and the responsibility lies with the private sector - particularly through the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes of large corporations with.
  

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“A developing world where young women sew clothes for Western consumers but can't afford to clothe themselves, where teachers teach in schools but can't afford to educate their own children and where ... Read full review

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Contents

Chapter 1 Can CSR Pave the Way for Development?
1
Chapter 2 What is CSR all About and Where is it Going?
15
Failures and Success
44
A Global View
96
Chapter 5 Corporations Should Abandon Philanthropy and Concentrate on CSR
113
Chapter 6 A Critique of CSR and Development
118
Chapter 7 CSR and Poverty
130
Chapter 8 Supply Chain Issues
146
Chapter 9 CSR in developing countries
170
Chapter 10 Limitations of International Agencies
188
Chapter 11 Socially Responsible Investment in Developing Countries
214
Chapter 12 Main Actions for Companies Involved in Development
226
Index
237
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