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• World review October-December 2005: a synopsis of the key strategic developments in corporate responsibility around the globe over the last quarter.

  - 2006-03-22

  The living dead THE POPULAR DEPICTION OF TODAY'S office worker as highly stressed, struggling to get ahead in the rat race of today's cut-throat corporate world is a familiar one. Yet the key concepts in a book at the top of the UK business...

  Tags: accountability, agreement, barrier, brand, CSR, Government, Leadership, negotiation, OECD

• Ambush in cyberspace: NGOs, the Internet and the MAI

  - 1999-06-01

  UNELECTED, unrepresentative bodies, presenting themselves as being motivated by altruism and contern for the public interest, yet willing to engage in the most egregious distortion and blatant propagandizing, are successfully using the Internet to mount scare campaigns in what is clearly a power-grab. A power-grab that has serious implications for...

  Tags: agreement, FINANCE, Globalization, INTERNET, negotiation, OECD, Strategy, Treasury, treaty

• -WWF: Collapsing MAI negotiations -- reorientation needed.

  - 1998-10-23

  M2 PRESSWIRE-23 October 1998-WWF: Collapsing MAI negotiations -- reorientation needed C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:201098 PARIS, France -- With the Multilateral Agreement on Investment MAI on the verge of collapse after France withdrew from the negotiations, WWF urges the OECD countries...

  Tags: agreement, FINANCE, France, ministry, negotiation, OECD

• International Investment Treaty Faces Uncertain Future.

  - 1998-10-19

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 17--The United States, Germany, Japan and other rich countries resume talks Tuesday on an international investment treaty, but policy differences and the absence of a key participant cloud the future of the proposal, which critics say threatens nations' sovereignty....

  Tags: agreement, FINANCE, investment, negotiation, negotiator, OECD, U.S.

• The talking FDI blues: a treaty to protect cross-border investments is a good idea. The one now being crafted is not.(foreign direct investment; Multilateral Agreement on Investment)(Editorial)(Brief Article)

  - 1998-03-14

  THE devil finds work for underemployed international bodies to do. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD, a Paris-based club of wealthy nations, does sterling work as a talk shop and data-collection point. But its officials crave grittier tasks, which may be why, for the...

  Tags: agreement, FINANCE, Investment, negotiation, negotiator, OECD, treaty

• Developing international rules for foreign investment: OECD's multilateral agreement on investment - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

  - 1997-01-01

  The main thrust of this paper is a progress report on the negotiations underway in Paris on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment the MAI. All internationally active firms have a stake in a positive outcome of these negotiations and in the ratification and effective implementation of the resulting agreement. But...

  Tags: agreement, investment, negotiation, OECD

• Group of Seven summit declarations - G-7 - economic, political and arms control declarations - includes opening statement of agreement on multilateral issues - transcript

  - 1991-07-22

  Building World Partnership 1. We, the Heads of State and Government of the seven major industrial democracies and the representatives of the European Community, met in London for our 17th annual Summit. 2. The spread of freedom and democracy which we celebrated at Houston has gathered pace over...

  Tags: agreement, democracy, East, environment, FINANCE, Government, Gulf, IMF, investment, negotiation, OECD, security, Summit, U.N., World Bank

• State Department perspectives on environmental issues - John D. Negroponte's address before the International Environmental Forum on September 18, 1987 - transcript

  - 1987-12-01

  State Department Perspectives on Environmental Issues I am delighted to have this opportunity to talk to the forum about environmental issues and trends. I enjoy sharing information, ideas, and perspectives on policy issues with interested and informed members of the public, not least because such exchanges can contribute greatly...

  Tags: agreement, chemicals, environment, Environmental, negotiation, OECD, ozone, pollution, U.S., U.S. Department of State