Search Results - social fact

IFPRI key facts series: Social safety nets by International Food Policy Research Institute

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IFPRI key facts series: Inequality by International Food Policy Research Institute

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Home truths: Facing the facts on children, AIDS, and poverty by Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS

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Global food security: facts, issues, interventions and public policy implications by Hanjra, Munir A., Ferede, Tadele, Blackwell, John, Jackson, Tamara M., Abbas, Akhtar

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Youth and jobs in rural Africa: Beyond stylized facts by Mueller, Valerie, Thurlow, James

“…Or will there be widespread unemployment, social instability, and an exodus to cities and abroad? …”
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Report of the TAC Fact Finding Mission to the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…Report of the TAC fact finding mission in May 1989 to the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) chaired by Gustavo Nores. …”
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Potential social impacts by Lipner, M.E.

“…This paper briefly discusses the major themes that comprise social impact assessment. It's intended to serve as a guide-post, that is, to raise questions about how a centre such as ILCA which is mandated to work on long term problems, maintains its focus on impact, is responsive to the needs of an identified client and moves toward its ultimate goal "to discover or revise facts (research) that have practical, beneficial application (development)". …”
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Technologies in a Social Context by CGIAR Initiative on Livestock and Climate, International Livestock Research Institute

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Ideology, social theory, and the environment by Sunderlin, William D.

“…Is economic growth the key ecological problem, or is it in fact the solution? What will be the leading force to save the planet: civil society, government, or private enterprise? …”
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Collaborating for Corporate Social Responsibility by Airike, Peppi-Emilia

“…Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to adjusting corporate goals so that they are not only based on maximizing corporate profits, but include ethical standards on socially desirable behavior (Boatright, 2008). …”
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Using publicly available social and spatial data to evaluate progress on REDD+ social safeguards in Indonesia by Jagger, P., Rana, P.

“…Given limited resources for social safeguard measuring, reporting and verification (MRV), and the fact that REDD+ is a performance based mechanism requiring monitoring over the medium to long-run, there is a need to develop SIS that are low cost, rigorous, and sustainable over time. …”
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Strategies for social customer relationship management by Johnsson, Katarina

“…All of the participating companies have some social media channel, but they use social media differently. …”
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Social captial, legal institutions, and property rights: Overview by Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Social capital may be one asset in which women are less disadvantaged or even hold an advantage. …”
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The social and economic effects of remigration to rural areas in Vietnam by Ho, Thi Ngan

“…However, two core ones were due to the fact that most of the Khmer short term returnees could not adapt to the living and working conditions in the destinations, and the seasonal returnees mostly returned to the home village because of rice crop season in the countryside. …”
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Att planera för social hållbarhet i ekobyar by Saukko, Saara

“…The main conclusion of this research is that the community itself as an active part, in an early phase of the process, is at least as important as the role the physical planner plays in creating social sustainability. In fact, this is the one factor that almost all sources agree on. …”
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Standarder för corporate social responsibility inom livsmedelsbranschen by Sandervig, Jessica, Ulfstedt, Sophia

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) theory and practice in Pakistan by Hameed, Syed Kamran

“…This master thesis is dealing with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its awareness in Pakistani companies. …”
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Governmental support for social responsibility in small and medium-sized enterprises by Buhr, Katarina, Hermansson, Anna

“…Several European governments have pointed out corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a deliberate strategic area with potential to enhance the national competitiveness on sustainable terms. …”
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Placemaking - en process som främja social hållbarhet i stadsplanering? by Leufvén, Hanna, Nilsson, Maria

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Deforestation and the social impacts of soy for biodiesel: Perspectives of farmers in the South Brazilian Amazon by Lima, M., Skutsch, M., Medeiros Costa, G. de

“…Soy farmers, laborers and non-soy farmers all have a positive view of the social impacts of soy, borne out by the fact that average incomes in Sorriso, where there has been an enormous increase in soy production over the last 20 years, are 4.6 times higher than those in Guarantã do Norte, which is still dominated by cattle rearing. …”
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