CSR and Developing Countries - United Nations
international trade, investment, and development assistance. The strategic challenge for governments at national and local levels is how best to shape an agenda that has been largely market-driven and responsive to concerns of rich country stakeholders. Over the past five years or so, governments, com-panies and NGOs in many middle-and-low-income
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