Development and the private sector consuming interests / [Book :]
edited by Deborah Eade and John Sayer.
- Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, , 2006.
- xii, 312 p. ; 23 cm.
- A development in practice reader 15 .
"'Development and the private sector : consuming interests' is based on Development in Practice, Volume 15, Numbers 3 & 4 (June 2005), published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Do more good, do less harm : development and the private sector / John Sayer -- Calling business to account : beyond corporate social responsibility -- In whose name? The accountability of corporate social responsibility / Jem Bendell -- Corporate responsibility and the movement of business / Peter Utting -- Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies / Niamh Garvey and Peter Newell -- Investing in development? -- Public resistance to privatization in water and energy / David Hall, Emanuele Lobina, and Robin de la Motte -- Public service privatization and crisis in Argentina / Leopoldo Rodrâiguez-Boetsch -- Size matters : the need for human-scale economic institutions for development / Julian Oram and Deborah Doane -- Java furniture makers : globalization winners or losers? / Lienda Loebis and Hubert Schmitz -- The World Bank's land of kiosks : community-driven development in Timor-Leste / Ben Moxham -- Pressure for change : fair trade and ethical codes of conduct -- Managing ethical standards : when rhetoric meets reality / Sumi Dhanarajan -- Corporate responsibility and the United States-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) : are they compatible? / Carolina Quinteros -- Partnering for sustainability : business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry / April Linton -- Reaching the marginalized? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture / Anne Tallontire ... [et al.] -- Resources -- Development and the private sector : an annotated list of selected resources / John Sayer and Deborah Eade.