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The study indicates that business success for rural women in Botswana is specific to the socio-cultural context. By examining prevalent concepts of patriarchy and community in our study, we start to see that cultural values […] View resource Briefing paper Made at Home: British homeworkers in the global supply chain 06/05/2004 1 documents 38 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Labour standards Livelihoods World Bank and IMF Overview No minimum wage, no sick pay, no maternity leave, no redundancy pay, forced overtime, no health and safety checks: this is the story of women around the world working to supply British supermarkets and retailers – the story told by Oxfam International in the report Trading Away Our Rights. It is the story of how […] View resource Research report Tarnished Legacy 04/02/2004 1 documents 62 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractives Overview A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali’s Syama Goldmine View resource Journal article Trade unions and women’s NGOs: diverse civil society organisations in Iran 01/02/2004 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Overview A comparison of trade unions and NGOs in Iran demonstrates the diverse nature of their activities. Over the last 90 years, trade unions have played important roles in changing the political system in that country. However, unions are largely male-dominated organisations, which explains why some women have begun to organise women’s trade unions. This article […] View resource Journal article More than a token gesture: NGOs and trade unions campaigning for a common cause 01/02/2004 6 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Refugees and IDPs Overview With the passage of the 1999 Asylum and Immigration Act in the UK, a system of vouchers for all new asylum seekers was to be introduced from April 2000. These vouchers were widely regarded as iniquitous in that they discriminated against an already vulnerable sector of society. A unique coalition between two NGOs (Oxfam GB […] View resource Research report Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold 14/11/2003 3 documents 4 pages long Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractives Overview A new claim under the investment rules in Chapter 11 of NAFTA has been initiated by Glamis Gold, a Canadian mining company that has demanded $50 million in compensation from the US because of California restrictions on open-pit gold mining. The initiation of the claim reinforces the threats to environmental laws from investment rules, and […] View resource Research report Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation? 09/04/2003 1 documents 48 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractives Overview World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa View resource Research report Digging to Development? 23/09/2002 1 documents 44 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractives Overview A historical look at mining and economic development. Large scale mining has had serious environmental and social impacts on poor communities around the world. Yet international financial institutions such as the World Bank continue to promote mining in developing countries. They justify this in part on the apparent success rich countries like the US, Canada […] View resource Journal article A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models 01/08/2002 15 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Overview Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […] View resource Research report Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world 01/07/2002 1 documents 30 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines TRIPS and patents Overview Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 … Page 33 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know