Development in Practice, Volume 15, Issue 3-4 (2005)

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Editorial
Editorial
Deborah Eade
Pages: 249-250
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Guest editor's introduction: Do more good, do less harm: development and the private sector
John Sayer
Pages: 251-268
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Is foreign direct investment good for the poor? A review and stocktake
Andrew Sumner
Pages: 269-285
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy
David Hall, Emanuele Lobina & Robin de la Motte
Pages: 286-301
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina
Leopoldo Rodríguez-Boetsch
Pages: 302-315
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Public–private partnership (PPP) and water-supply provision in urban Africa: The experience of Congo-Brazzaville
Gabriel Tati
Pages: 316-324
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia
Ana Marr & Tim Chancellor
Pages: 325-336
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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An institutional approach to service-provision partnerships in South Asia
Kevin Tayler
Pages: 337-348
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Private-sector development in a transition economy: The case of Vietnam
Henrik Schaumburg-müller
Pages: 349-361
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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In whose name? The accountability of corporate social responsibility
Jem Bendell
Pages: 362-374
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Corporate responsibility and the movement of business
Peter Utting
Pages: 375-388
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies
Niamh Garvey & Peter Newell
Pages: 389-404
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Corporate responsibility or core competence?
Barbara Hayes & Bridget Walker
Pages: 405-412
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Business economic impacts: The new frontier for corporate accountability
Helen Campbell
Pages: 413-421
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Corporate social responsibility: A challenge for the donor community
Bob Frame
Pages: 422-432
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Corporate citizenship: Creating social capacity in developing countries
Trevor Goddard
Pages: 433-438
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Size matters: the need for human-scale economic institutions for development
Julian Oram & Deborah Doane
Pages: 439-450
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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A critique of design methodologies appropriate to private-sector activity in development
Tim Coward & James Fathers
Pages: 451-462
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Enhancing competitiveness and securing equitable development: Can small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do the trick?
Soeren Jeppesen
Pages: 463-474
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Facilitated inter-firm collaboration in Ghana: The case of Danida's private-sector development projects
John Kuada & Olav Jull Sørensen
Pages: 475-489
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Private funding of microcredit schemes: Much ado about nothing?
Begoña Gutiérrez Nieto
Pages: 490-501
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Post-conflict pro-poor private-sector development: The case of Timor-Leste
Takayoshi Kusago
Pages: 502-513
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Java furniture makers: Globalisation winners or losers?
Lienda Loebis & Hubert Schmitz
Pages: 514-521
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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The World Bank's land of kiosks: Community driven development in Timor-Leste
Ben Moxham
Pages: 522-528
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Managing ethical standards: When rhetoric meets reality
Sumi Dhanarajan
Pages: 529-538
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
Valerie Nelson, Adrienne Martin & Joachim Ewert
Pages: 539-545
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Leveraging change in the working conditions of UK homeworkers
Peter Williams
Pages: 546-558
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture
Anne Tallontire, Catherine Dolan, Sally Smith & Stephanie Barrientos
Pages: 559-571
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Corporate responsibility and the US–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): Are they compatible?
Carolina Quinteros
Pages: 572-583
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua
Karla Utting-chamorro
Pages: 584-599
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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Partnering for sustainability: Business–NGO alliances in the coffee industry
April Linton
Pages: 600-614
Published online: 19 Jan 2007
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