Format:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415593113
,
9780203126929
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Development Economics Series
Content:
This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account
Note:
Intro -- Business Regulation and Non- State Actors Whose standards? Whose development? -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction: multistakeholder regulation from a development perspective -- 1 Development and the problematic of non- state regulation -- 2 Activism, business regulation and development -- 3 Assessing the ETI codes of labour practice -- 4 Social Accountability 8000 and socioeconomic development -- 5 The International Organization for Standardization -- 6 The United Nations Global Compact and development -- 7 The Global Reporting Initiative: promise and limitations -- 8 Balanço Social and sustainability reporting in Brazil -- 9 The Forest Stewardship Council -- 10 The Marine Stewardship Council -- 11 The GlobalG.A.P. -- 12 Global retail accumulation strategies and Wal- Mart's CSR regime -- 13 Applying the Atlanta Agreement on child labour in South Asia -- 14 The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) -- 15 Blood diamonds, non- state actors and development: the Kimberley Process and beyond -- 16 Peoples' tribunals in Latin America -- 17 The Worker Rights Consortium -- 18 International Framework Agreements and development -- 19 IFOAM and the institutionalization of organic agriculture -- 20 'Fair trade gold': prospects for Africa's artisanal miners -- 21 The World Fair Trade Organization: from trust to compliance -- 22 Fairtrade International (FLO) -- 23 Comercio Justo México: potential lessons for Fairtrade? -- 24 From non- state regulation to governance? Shifting the site of contestation -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Reed, Ananya Business Regulation and Non-State Actors Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415593113
Language:
English
Keywords:
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