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Subject(s)

• Trade regulation [Browse]
• Industrial policy [Browse]
• International business enterprises—Social aspects [Browse]
• Social responsibility of business [Browse]
• Sustainable development [Browse]
• Non-governmental organizations [Browse]
• International Organization for Standardization [Browse]

Related name

• Utting, Peter [Browse]
• Reed, Darryl [Browse]
• Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in development economics ; 93. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in development economics ; 93 [More in this series]

Summary note

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. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations that often characterize this field of inquiry. First, fragmentation: articles or books typically focus on one or a handful of cases. Second, the development dimension: what does such regulation imply for developing countries and subaltern groups in terms of well-being, empowerment and sustainabil

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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 development7 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 Consortium18 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

ISBN

• 1-136-45935-9
• 1-136-45936-7
• 0-203-12692-0

OCLC

• 798532975
• 787851151

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203126929

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