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  • Appetite for Change

    Reinventing the Global Food System

    23 Jun 2011 – Report

    Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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  • Issue Brief: China

    New landscapes

    18 Dec 2007 – Article

    China is a populous country of diverse cultures and regions undergoing monumental change. The pace of change is so rapid that tensions and instability are inevitable. For each of modern China’s many achievements, there are complex trade-offs.

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  • Time to Bop in Brazil and India (Época Negócios)

    26 Jun 2007 – Article

    A new report from the World Resources Institute (WRI) explores the nature and scale of markets at the base of the pyramid (BOP)—and looks at how successful businesses are moving to meet their needs.

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  • Pharma Futures 2

    Prescription for Long-Term Value

    19 Jun 2007 – Report

    Phama Futures 2 outlines the findings of a 12-month dialogue between leading industry executives and major institutional investors on how the pharma sector can better deliver long-term value to shareholders and consumers.

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  • Issue Brief: Taxing Issues

    What's fair?

    20 Dec 2006 – Article

    How the traditionally opaque world of corporate tax planning is coming under increasing pressure to enhance transparency and demonstrate greater accountability.

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  • It's the Economics, Stupid (Grist)

    Has the corporate-responsibility movement lost sight of the big picture?

    09 May 2006 – Article

    Perhaps it's time to ask ourselves whether the language of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has blinded us to looming planetary and civilizational risks.

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  • Issue Brief: India

    Ancient civilisation, largest democracy

    24 Feb 2006 – Article

    Whether companies consider India a source of well trained but affordable labour or look upon it as a market, one thing is clear – no company can afford to ignore it.

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  • Issue Brief: Brazil

    Country of diversities and inequalities

    24 Feb 2006 – Article

    Brazil is a land where modern industry and commerce has flourished alongside extraordinary inequality, poverty, crime and violence. In part because of these extremes, Brazil has long been associated with sustainable development.

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  • Country Study: Brazil

    Country of Diversities and Inequalities

    23 Feb 2006 – Report

    Embracing the Amazon rainforest and the sprawling cities and shanty towns of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil is a land where modern industry and commerce has flourished alongside extraordinary inequality, poverty, crime and violence.

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  • Radar: The Security Issue

    Safety, Comfort and Protection, But At What Cost?

    05 Oct 2005 – Radar Archive

    Security touches us deeply because it feeds off, and can fuel, our fears. Offers of security draw us with promises of safety, comfort and protection. The question though, is at what cost to freedom and opportunity, for us and for society at large?

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  • Radar: The G8 Issue

    Is the G8 Outmoded?

    04 Jun 2005 – Radar Archive

    Is the G8 outmoded, as a group of leaders based on geographical borders? Given the questions that they are addressing, isn’t there an irresistible case to enhance the diversity of the group? And where are the other players in the G8 discussions?

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  • Radar: The Work Issue

    Work... Is it an order? An invitation? An opportunity even?

    10 Apr 2005 – Radar Archive

    In this issue of _Radar_ we explore the boundaries of work, the role technology is playing in blurring where, and when, we work and the changing role trade unions, not least with their growing involvement in the corporate responsibility agenda.

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  • Radar: The Liability Issue

    See You in Court?

    03 Oct 2004 – Radar Archive

    In this edition we consider where questions of moral and retrospective liability will lead us, and ask whether a growing compensation culture will make for a richer or poorer society.

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  • Radar: The Sports Issue

    What's the Score?

    11 Aug 2004 – Radar Archive

    This edition covers some of the key issues that sport - and the sports industry - face in making a positive contribution to more sustainable forms of development.

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  • Radar: The HIV/AIDS Issue

    Whose Catastrophe?

    10 Dec 2003 – Radar Archive

    In this edition of Radar we explore the business side of the HIV/AIDS tragedy, focusing on new scenarios, social enterprise responses, outsourcing, access to medicines and the potential of ‘open source’ thinking.

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