Notes from the Chamber of Commerce: Let’s Get Smarter About Corporate Social Responsibility

The role of business is changing. That was the take home message from last week’s Emerging Market Development conference, sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Recent emphasis on “corporate social responsibility” has pushed businesses to wade into pools that would have been completely foreign to managers a decade ago. The conference sought to guide…

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Journalist Attacked in Kuwait

Reuters is reporting that Kuwaiti journalist Zayed al-Zaid was physically attacked and wounded after leaving a transparency summit earlier this week. (Global Integrity later was told Zaid had actually been at headquarters of a political movement prior to the attack.) Zaid is the editor of an online news source known for its corruption-focused investigative reporting…

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Kick-off Seminar for the Latin America Local Governance Toolkit

Lea la versión en español abajo. An all-day seminar entitled “The promotion of a reform agenda for the institutional quality at the level sub-national: the experience of Argentina, Peru and Ecuador,” held Wednesday September 30th, marked the official release of the most recent project of Global Integrity’s Local Integrity Initiative, in which in-country partner groups…

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