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Survey on Key Challenges and Industry Performance
Results from The Sustainability Survey
What are the most urgent challenges facing society today? And which of 17 industry sectors are doing the most effective job of managing the most urgent challenges?
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Pharma Futures 3
Emerging Opportunities
Emerging markets are now significant players in global trade. Yet they are also very different than mature markets and more complex to manage. For the pharmaceutical industry in particular, they have often presented both challenges and opportunities.
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Painful Lessons From A Laptop Storm (Nikkei Ecology)
Our first question is this: How helpful is the unsupervised use of computers to children in poor countries? A lot hangs on the answer.
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Coming of Age (Director)
Business should be one of the driving forces behind tackling climate change and world poverty, but that requires learning from innovators already at work.
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Country Study: China
New Landscapes
As levels of trade and foreign direct investment soar, China is also confronted by polarising inequalities of wealth and opportunity, a schism between rural and urban development, and environmental degradation of national and global significance.
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Time to Bop in Brazil and India (Época Negócios)
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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A World of 'Us' (Corporate Citizenship Briefing)
Maggie Brenneke writes that corporations worldwide that are forward-thinking enough to create a socially inclusive world will not only find it’s the right thing to do, but will find it’s the right thing for business.
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Brundtland and Sustainability: History's Balance-Sheet (openDemocracy)
A shaping idea of our time is twenty years old. John Elkington tracks the epic journey of "sustainable development", assesses its record, and looks forward.
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Skoll Paper 2: Barefoot Billionaires
The big investors behind the social entrepreneurship boom
Barefoot Billionaires looks at some of the big investors behind the social entrepreneurship boom, including: Bill Drayton, George Soros, Stephen Schmidheiny, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Klaus and Hilde Schwab.
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How Business Can Change the World
Geoff Lye writes on the powerful economic and moral case for businesses to take an active part in working towards the UN Millennium Development Goals.
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It's the Economics, Stupid (Grist)
Has the corporate-responsibility movement lost sight of the big picture?
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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Pyramid Schemes (Grist)
A little time in the lab could teach big business how to help the poor
With billions of poor people in the world, there is surely a growing case for bringing poverty "into the laboratory," to study with rigor what alleviates or exacerbates it.
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Country Study: Brazil
Country of Diversities and Inequalities
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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Fatigue of Nations (Grist)
What green looks like to the world's emerging economies
While Grist's new series explores poverty and the environment in the U.S., we are wondering: What chance is there that the environmental revolution will reach the bottom of the wealth pyramid wherever it may be found?
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Radar: The China Issue
What Does the Future Hold?
How China’s growing role and influence on the world stage may have more to offer sustainable development than is commonly acknowledged.
