This volume deals with the role and influence of business in contemporary development approaches and social policy from theoretical and practical perspectives
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'UNRISD has become an international leader in the analysis and empirics of the impact of corporate social responsibility on developing and transition countries. This volume examines the relationship between large firms and government in these countries, with a particular focus on the implications for social policy. Avoiding the simplicities of much debate on globalization and development, the contributions demonstrate how, under appropriate conditions, the inevitable political influence of large firms can be prevented from undermining inclusive development. Business, Politics and Public Policy shows that the United Nations still has a powerful and convincing voice.' E.V.K. FitzGerald, Head of Department, Oxford Department for International Development, University of Oxford, UK
'This is a farsighted and agenda-setting volume. Many studies of policy making overlook the privileged role of business, which, if anything, has expanded in developing countries in the wake of state retrenchment in recent decades. Moreover, early hopes that democratization would be sufficient to empower the poor to demand more effective social spending have not been borne out. This volume focuses precisely on the crucial missing link, namely business, and provides both rich, insightful case studies and an overarching and integrating theoretical framework for understanding business engagement in policy making. This is important reading for scholars of policy making and business as well as anyone concerned with promoting social welfare and equality.' Ben Ross Schneider, Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
This is the second volume of two books on the changing nature of state-business relations. This volume focuses on the need to shift attention from what business is doing in relation to CSR and to what private regulation is doing in relation to social policy.
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Hardback. Condición: Mint. First Edition. BUSINESS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Implications for Inclusive Development. Jose Carlos Marques & Peter Utting (Editors). Palgrave Macmillan, London. 2010 First edition ISBN 9780230576452 328pp Hardback. This copy is in mint, unread condition in illustrated laminated boards, a dust wrapper is not called for. Globalization and liberalization have profoundly altered power relations, institutional arrangements and business strategies. Historically, these have played a role in regulating corporations and engaging business as a partner in social development. In today's developing and transitional economies, how do organized business interests influence social and other public policies that shape inclusive development? This fascinating study explores under what conditions business can be expected to support or accommodate progressive social policy and whether the rise of big business fundamentally constrains inclusive development processes. Based on conceptual and historical analyses, the book also includes contemporary country case studies on Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia and South Africa. Marques and Utting and their team use these to illustrate the predominant means by which corporate interests directly and indirectly influence social, labour market and development policy, the reasons for their positions and the scope of their influence. Ref II4. Nº de ref. del artículo: 011760
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