NE 2012 DANO LITY ABI TAIN SUS RT EPO R ance Perform and Strategy IC RATEG TS ST LIGH HIGH For All, Health, Nature People, E RmAnC fo GRI pERoRS T IndICA SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2012 STRATEgY 4 EDITORIAL FRANCK RIBOUD 6 KEY SOCIAL TOPICS NUTRITION AND HEALTH ISSUES SOCIAL ISSUES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 7 10 12 14 STRATEgY 2012 HIgHLIgHTS HEALTH FOR ALL PEOPLE NATURE 15 22 28 34 40 MEASURINg PROgRESS AND PERFORMANCE THROUgHOUT THE VALUE CHAIN DANONE WAY RESPECT DANONE’S
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foreign aid being contaminated by corruption, the poorest countries should be avoided. This would, however, make aid policy rather pointless. This is the basic dilemma corruption raises for aid policy. Unlike international business most development aid organisations and international finance institutions have the lion’s share of their activities located in highly corrupt countries (Alesina and Weder, 1999). The international community in general and some donor countries in particular are, however,
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1)Differences between generic software product development and custom software development. Generic software can be defined as: ‘stand-alone systems produced for an open market – production controlled by the development organisation’, whereas custom software can be defined as: ‘commissioned systems by a particular customer – production controlled by the customer organisation’. Generic software has to include as many functions as possible as it will have a very wide use base, and will need
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Position: Internet has no globalisation effect Argument 1 • The difference between well developed and less developed countries • Developed countries offer the most information and develop the internet, where is a gap to developing countries gets wider • Developed countries need to invest to be on a competitive basis to attend the internet revolution and therefore an cultural and economic change • Internet use is restricted to urban elites https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2008/06/images/picture3
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how the past affects the future and for many poor countries a complicated and unstable past has influenced the countries ability to develop. The political environment of a country generally has a huge impact on the countries social and economic development therefore an unstable government of corruption and greed can hinder a countries ability to advance. Wars caused by political tension between countries also impact nations as they are torn apart by death and demolition leading to a division within
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from greedy CEO’s and unemployment due to outsourcing. Globalization damages developing countries because many young people work in sweatshops, which damages their health and development. These young boys and girls have little opportunity to develop into better human beings. They are subject to work during their development stages, instead of education. Ha-Joon Chang, a former consultant to the World Bank wrote a book on the myth of free trade and describes a situation involving his son who is six
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the government and banks lending many to unsuccessful businesses. The secondhand clothes industry contributes to Africa’s third world debt and globalization, because it is a business that requires no skills and education, which equals to slower development. Africa is in a very difficult position due to those issues and it may take a long time for the country to progress. United States can help by regulating on dealers who are making a business out of donated clothes; develop a plan for Africa to
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The Investment Climate, Governance, and Inclusion in Bangladesh Nicholas Stern Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank1 Speech delivered at Bangladesh Economic Association, Dhaka January 8, 2002 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great pleasure for me to return to Bangladesh after nearly 15 years and to have this opportunity to speak at the Bangladesh Economic Association. I last visited this beautiful country in 1986 as a member of an economic advisory team working on
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The term development is wrapped in a lot of controversy, there is a lot of ambiguity surrounding this term and various writers have come up with various definitions of development, however, we cannot have any single definition for this term because of the multi- facetedness and multi-dimensional form that development takes. Development can mean different things to different people and how one views development is usually affected by their own perceptions of life. There is basically the Afrocentric
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differences between them and it will evaluate which one is more convincing. Modernization is an imposing theory around many different disciplines for the reason that it attempts to explain how society develops and what variables are involved in the development and how society react to these changes looking at internal factors such as social and cultural structures. As Diana Kendall mentions, "Urbanization accompanied modernization and the rapid process of industrialization." (Kendall 2007) Modernization
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