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Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America
.SPRING 2008 ISSUE TO BE RELEASED APRIL 23
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Read
Back to
Basics
by José Antonio Ocampo—the feature article in an issue
examining inequality and social mobility.
Full Text.
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Read
a preview of
Frustration Mounts by Orlando
Gutierrez-Boronat—an article
appearing in a special section on Cuba in the Spring 2008 issue. The
author
will
be among our speakers at the
May 1
AQ Launch in Miami.
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Read
the Fall 2007
Hard Talk Forum
debate between
Mark Weisbrot of the Center
for Economic and Policy Research and
Francisco Rodriguez of Wesleyan University
on the effects of Venezuela’s economic policies. Their exchange has
continued in other
fora, with Francisco Rodriguez recently defending his conclusions in
a
working paper.
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Traveling soon?
AQ is available in the VIP lounges of Mexicana Airlines (Mexico
City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Cancún, Mexicali, and San Antonio,
Texas) and Aeropuertos Argentina-operated facilities (Buenos Aires,
Bariloche and Montevideo, Uruguay).
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How to
Fulfill the Promise of CSR
—By
Richard Feinberg
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If hemisphere business leaders and their government
counterparts truly want to address the full potential of
Corporate Social Responsibility to improve quality of life,
they will need to be more creative. |
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Corporate
Inclusion
—Sylvia
Maxfield
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Latin American women are
finally reaching the upper rungs of the corporate ladder
– and the
results are showing up in the bottom line. |
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Profits and
the Poor
—By
Patricia Márquez and Michael Penfold
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Can the private sector earn money fighting poverty? Three recent
case studies in Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil suggest it's possible–but
it won't be easy. |
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Why Brazil Leads the Region in CSR
—By
Regina Scharf
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Modern Brazilian firms are now the hemisphere's template for
conscientious civic involvement. But not all of their compatriots
are getting the message. |
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Beat the
Heat
—By
Sasha Chavkin
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Floods in Mexico. Hurricanes
in the Dominican Republic. Desertification in
Brazil. For environmentally conscious CEOs,
weather disasters sparked by global climate
change represent both a challenge and an
opportunity. |
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Dispatches from
the Field: Oaxaca
—By
Stephen Kurczy and Nathan Paluck
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Mexico's southern state is starting to recover
from the protests that plunged it into chaos one
year ago. A quick walk-through reveals that
small businesses and the poor are suffering the
aftermath. |
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Hard Talk Forum: Closing Guantanamo
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Should the U.S. government close the Guantanamo Bay
detention facility?
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Fresh Look Reviews
Reviews of some of the
hemisphere's best new and recent books.
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—Reviewed by Luigi Manzetti |
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—Reviewed by Joshua Newton |
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