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Microfinance – Driving Sustainable Development
An ever present feature of developing countries would appear to be the large number of people who live below or around the poverty line, making it even more difficult for these countries to progress. The new international poverty line of $1.25 a day at 2005 prices is the mean of the national poverty lines for […]
Business and Intervention: Let’s Talk Governance
Philanthropy and directed investments are one form of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However enhancing internal processes (for instance, corporate governance) is another form, which remains largely untapped, especially in Pakistan. This is a startling reality, as evidence from the west increasingly notes the collusion of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. It is interesting to […]
is sustainability sustainable?
Venice, I realized, is the antithesis of creative destruction, it exists to conserve and appre-ciate a past, not create a future. But that is exactly the point. The city caters to a deep human need for stability and permanence… Venice’s popularity represents one pole of a conflict in human nature: The struggle between the desire […]
The CSR Song
(to be sung to the tune of Mrs. Robinson) And here’s to you big cor-po-ra-tion Bourses love you more and more Wo wo wo God bless you big cor-po-ra-tion Try to do some good night and day Hey hey hey, hey hey hey We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files […]