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    Business regulation and non-state actors : whose standards? : whose development? / edited by Darryl Reed, Peter Utting and Amanya Mukherjee-Reed.

    • Title:Business regulation and non-state actors : whose standards? : whose development? / edited by Darryl Reed, Peter Utting and Amanya Mukherjee-Reed.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Utting, Peter.
      Reed, Darryl.
      Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya.
    • Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:International Organization for Standardization.
      Trade regulation.
      Industrial policy.
      International business enterprises--Social aspects.
      Social responsibility of business.
      Sustainable development.
      Non-governmental organizations.
    • Medical Subjects: Organizations
    • Description:xxix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Routledge studies in development economics ; 93.
    • Summary:This text investigates the manner in which and the degree to which non-state initiatives that regulate the activities of business contribute to inclusive development, especially the development prospects of the most vulnerable sectors of society. The collection includes a variety of individual cases.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780415593113 (hb)
      0415593115 (hb)
      9780203126929 (eb)
      0203126920 (eb)
    • Contents:Introduction: multistakeholder regulation in a development perspective / Peter Utting
      Development and the problematic of non-state regulation / Darryl Reed
      Activism, business regulation, and development / Peter Utting
      Assessing the ETI codes of labour practice / Stephane Barrientos and Sally Smith
      Social Accountability 8000 and Socioeconomic Development / Andreas Rasche and Dirk Ulrich Gilbert
      The international organization for standardization / Stepan Wood
      The United Nations global compact and development / Catia Gregoratti
      The global reporting initiative : promise and limitations / David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown
      Balanço social and sustainability reporting in Brazil / Eduardo R. Gomes and Ana Maria Kirschner
      The forest stewardship council / Graeme Auld and Benjamin Cashore
      The marine stewardship council / Graeme Auld
      The global G.A.P. / Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs
      Global retail accululation strategies and Wal-mart's CSR regime / Ngai-Ling Sum
      Applying the Atlanta Agreement on Child Labour in South Asia / Peter Lund-Thomsen and Khalid Nadvi
      The extractive industries transparency initiative / Carola Kantz
      Blood diamonds, non-state actors, and development : the Kimberley process and beyond / Ian Smillie
      Peoples' tribunals in Latin America / Marcelo Saguier
      The worker rights consortium / Don Wells
      International framework agreements and development / Nikolaus Hammer
      IFOAM and the instiutionalization of organic agriculture / René Audet and Corinne Gendron
      "Fair trade gold" : prospects for Africa's artisanal miners / Gavin Hilson and Paul Kamlongera
      The world fair trade organization : from trust to compliance / Eileen Davenport and William Low
      Fairtrade international (FLO) / Darryl Reed
      Comercio justo México : potential lessons for fairtrade? / Alistair M. Smith and Francisco VanDerHoff Boersma
      From non-state regulation to governance? : shifting the site of contestation / Darryl Reed and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed.
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