Mois : décembre 2008

a resource center for business

Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International  Development Cooperation and its Newsletter.

This website was developed as an anti-corruption resource for business. It explores and details the constructive role that business can play in fighting corruption and how this can be done jointly with other companies and stakeholders – an approach called “collective action”. Organizations and individuals are already successfully using collective action today, working with business associations, civil society, media, government departments and other stakeholders … (full text wellcome page).

Business case;
Guide;
Resources;
Case summaries;
Events;
Contact.

About: the summer of 2007, WBI began a series of discussions with representatives of the business community, NGOs and other anti-corruption stakeholders focused on the proposition that business could and, in fact, wanted to do more to be an active force for constructive change in high risk geographies or sectors. It became clear in the discussions that business wanted to go beyond internal compliance programs to external operational activities which would improve market and project transparency and competitiveness.

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Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International  Development Cooperation and its Newsletter.

The Global Value Chains Initiative seeks to develop an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space. It is a multi-year effort to test and develop the GVC framework with the aims of creating greater analytical precision, intellectual impact and policy relevance. Our efforts include a research agenda, a publishing thrust, the development and dissemination of industrial upgrading handbooks for practitioners, and a series of intensive workshops convened to test and broaden the framework through interactions among network participants and with the broader academic, policy-making and activist communities. (Homepage).

Concept and Tools;
Researchers;
Publications;
News and Events;
User Community;
Physical Address: Center on Globalization, Governance & Competetiveness CGGC, Bay B, Erwin Mill, 2024 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27705, USA;
Mailing Address: Attn: Mike Hensen, Sr. Program Coordinator, Box 90420, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0420, USA;
Contact.

About: The Global Value Chains (GVC) Initiative is a loose network of researchers, activists, and policymakers that seeks to consolidate and foster the GVC perspective, an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space. It is an ongoing effort to test and develop the GVC perspective with the aims of creating greater analytical precision, intellectual impact and policy relevance.

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Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International Development Cooperation and its Newsletter:

• en français: Le Centre de recherche pour le développement international CRDI
• en espanol: Cenro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo CIID

IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

Homepage;
Working with us;
Career Opportunities;
Where we work /Country profiles;
Canadian collaboration;
Accountability;
History of IDRC;
Newsletter /Bulletin;
Mailing address: PO Box 8500, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G 3H9;
Street address: 150 Kent Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1P 0B2;
Contact.

About:
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Our support is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

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Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International  Development Cooperation, and its Newsletter.

The Centre for International Competitiveness focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses. It is also the home of the influential World Knowledge Competitiveness Index, European Competitiveness Index, and the UK Competitiveness Index series of reports. (Homepage).

Sitemap;
News; Latest Publications;
Competing for Knowledge;
Competitiveness Index Reports;
Consultancy Services;
Innovation;
Downloads;
Directors;
Addresses: Professor Robert Huggins, Cardiff School of Management, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Colchester Avenue, Cardiff, CF23 9XR, UK;
or: Dr Hiro Izushi, Aston Business School, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK;
Contact /Enquiry Form.

About: Founded in 2007, the Centre for International Competitiveness focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses.

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The Henry L. Stimson Center

Linked with Michael Krepon – USA, and with Does Threat Reduction Require Threat Inflation?

Founded in 1989, the Henry L. Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach. The Stimson Center’s work is focused on three priorities that are essential to global security:

• strengthening institutions for international peace and security;
• building regional security;
• reducing weapons of mass destruction and transnational threats;

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Homepage;
Events /Fact sheets;
Experts; Research Programs;
Publications; Press Room; Press Releases;
Address: The Henry L. Stimson Center, 1111 19th Street NW, Twelfth Floor. Washington, DC 20036, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: … The Center’s approach is pragmatic — geared toward providing policy alternatives, solving problems, and overcoming obstacles to a more peaceful and secure world. Through in-depth research and analysis, we seek to understand and illuminate complex issues. By engaging policymakers, policy implementers, and nongovernmental institutions as well as other experts, we craft recommendations that are cross-partisan, actionable, and effective.

Vision and Motto;
History of the Stimson Center;
About Henry L. Stimson.