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  • Appetite for Change

    Reinventing the Global Food System

    23 Jun 2011 – Report

    Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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  • Pharma Futures 3

    Emerging Opportunities

    23 Feb 2009 – Report

    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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  • Crunch Time for China (Director)

    30 Nov 2008 – Article

    China now faces a disorienting triple crunch, and its responses will powerfully shape our world 15 years hence.

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  • In Doha’s Fading Light, a Call to Action (China Dialogue)

    13 Oct 2008 – Article

    Nationalistic tendencies have hindered the world’s ability to address developing countries’ interests. A solution that fosters cooperation while supporting the principles of sustainable development is crucial write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe.

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  • Painful Lessons from a Laptop Storm (Época Negócios)

    06 May 2008 – Article

    How helpful is the unsupervised use of computers to children in poor countries?

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  • The Race to Sustainable Mobility (Sustainability Tomorrow)

    An interview with Mr. Dave Berdish, Manager, Ford Motor

    12 Feb 2008 – Conversation

    When many think of Ford, they think trucks and SUVs. What does the company mean by 'sustainable mobility'? Is it car-centered, and is this just a more palatable way to sell more vehicles without improving their environmental performance?

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  • Country Study: China

    New Landscapes

    27 Nov 2007 – Report

    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)

    26 Jun 2007 – Article

    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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  • Pharma Futures 2

    Prescription for Long-Term Value

    19 Jun 2007 – Report

    Phama Futures 2 outlines the findings of a 12-month dialogue between leading industry executives and major institutional investors on how the pharma sector can better deliver long-term value to shareholders and consumers.

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  • How Green is Green Enough? (Época Negócios)

    25 Apr 2007 – Article

    Is recent progress on corporate sustainability likely to be sufficient? In simple terms, how green is green enough – and where do wider social challenges like inequity, corruption or HIV/AIDS fit into the equation?

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  • It's the Economics, Stupid (Grist)

    Has the corporate-responsibility movement lost sight of the big picture?

    09 May 2006 – Article

    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

    14 Mar 2006 – Article

    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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  • Fatigue of Nations (Grist)

    What green looks like to the world's emerging economies

    14 Feb 2006 – Article

    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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  • Country Study: India

    Ancient Civilisation, Largest Democracy

    15 Aug 2005 – Report

    India, like China, has an increasingly influential role to play in the shifting politics, strategies and alliances that will determine the nature of globalization in years to come.

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  • Issue Brief: HIV/AIDS

    What can business do?

    23 Dec 2004 – Article

    40 million people are estimated to be infected with HIV/AIDS. Companies impacted by HIV/AIDS are starting to take action, but many still need to define best practice and better understand the business case.

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