History and Evolution of CSR: Indian Detailed Before the term and concept of corporate social and environmental responsibility came into common usage in the 1990s, the terms “charity” and “philanthropy” were prevalent in business circles. The idea of corporate involvement in social well-being as a voluntary response to social issues and problems and responsible behaviour in business, is as old as business itself. However, although the evidence of the concern of business for society goes back several
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acknowledge or incorporate the social relations of gender...the model of the body politic.” Carol Boyce Davies- Carnival is not at every level and always a site of complete liberation. It may in fact function as a site of containment. For in some cases, the attraction to the carnival is the possibility of seeing female bodies,
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(FDI) plays a very important role in the development of the nation. It is very much vital in the case of underdeveloped and developing countries. A typical characteristic of these developing and underdeveloped economies is the fact that these economies do not have the needed level of savings and income in order to meet the required level of investment needed to sustain the growth of the economy. In such cases, foreign direct investment plays an important role of bridging the gap between the available
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PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT 1936 PREAMBLE: Whereas it is expedient to regulate the payment of wages to certain classes of persons employed in industry. ENACTMENT: * Payment of wages Act 1936. * 26 Sections with 5 appendices. PLACE OF APPLICATION: It shall be applicable to whole of Pakistan. EXTENT OF APPLICATION: It applies to the workers in: * Factory & railway administration. * Government may apply this Act to any worker after having three months’ notice. * It doesn’t
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General Circular No. 21/2014 No. 05/01/2014- CSR Government of India Ministry of Corporate Affairs 5th Floor, ‘A’ Wing, Shastri Bhawan, Dr. R. P. Marg New Delhi - 110 001 Dated: 18th June, 2014 To, All Regional Director, All Registrar of Companies, All Stakeholders Subject: - Clarifications with regard to provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility under section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. Sir, This Ministry has received several references and representation from stakeholders seeking clarifications
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CHRISTOPHER A. BARTLETT VINCENT DESSAIN ANDERS SJÖMAN IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A) In May 1995, Marianne Barner faced a tough decision. After just two years with IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer, and less than a year into her job as business area manager for carpets, she was faced with the decision of cutting off one of the company’s major suppliers of Indian rugs. While such a move would disrupt supply and affect sales, she found the reasons to
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2/12/13 Planning Commission, Government of India || INDIA’S ECONOMIC REFORMS: AN APPRAISAL Montek S. Ahluwalia Printable Version 26.8.99 India’s economic reforms began in 1991 when a newly elected Congress government, facing an exceptionally severe balance of payments crisis, embarked on a programme of short term stabilisation combined with a longer term programme of comprehensive structural reforms. Rethinking on economic policy had begun earlier in the mid-eighties by when the limitations
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as helpers for farm wives, as apprenticed craftsmen, and as miners among a variety of other professions. Both sides, the employer and the indentured laborer, were required to meet their terms which were legally enforced by local American courts. In case of any runaways, those laborers were sought and brought back to their employers to continue as their contract required. In the 17th and 18th century, about half of the white immigrants to the American colonies were indentured. The majority of the indentured
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evolution and refinement. Ever since the 1920s, when as a sequel to the Indian Jail Committee (1919-20) recommendations, comprehensive Children Acts were first enacted in the Provinces of Madras (1920), Bengal (1922) and Bombay (1924) till the passing of the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986,1 the advances have been dynamic. These changes were partly due to litigation by public interest groups contesting the status of juveniles in Indian jails, Supreme Court rulings, and the adoption of UN General Assembly
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In nineteenth century U.S could be called as an young country with wide, noble ideas of independence, equality and economic development; with their own basic law, the first constitution in the World. Regarding to mentioned words; why was it possible to America to start Civil War? The case of America was multidimensional. United States Constitution did not explain laws and behaviour towards blackskinned slaves clearly. The South States of America were place where slavery flourished. Hosts of latifundiums needed ''hands to work'' –
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