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Conceptualising corporate community development / Banks, Glenn; Scheyvens, Regina ; McLennan, Sharon ; Bebbington, Anthony

Banks, Glenn	Article
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Globally there is an increasing focus on the private sector as a significant development actor. One element of the private sector’s role emphasised within this new focus has been corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, whereby the private sector claims to contribute directly to local development. There is now a substantial body of work on CSR but it is a literature that is mostly polarised, dominated by concerns from the corporate perspective, and not adequately theorised. Corporations typically do development differently from NGOs and donors, yet the nature and effects of these initiatives are both under-researched and under-conceptualised. In this paper we argue that viewing CSR initiatives through a community development lens provides new insights into their rationale and effects. Specifically we develop a conceptual framework that draws together agency and practice-centred approaches in order to illuminate the processes and relationships that underpin corporate community development initiatives.

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Business ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Poverty Reduction ; Agency ; Corporate Community Development ; Market-Based Development ;
Community Perspective

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ID: 149582

Generous yet unpopular: developmental versus political role of post-9/11 us aid in Pakistan / Ali, Murad ; Parsons, Nigel ; Banks, Glenn

Banks, Glenn	Journal Article
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Pakistan ; Political Role ; Post-9/11 ; US Aid ; Generous ; Unpopular ;
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ID: 080810

Understanding ‘resource’ conflicts in Papua New Guinea / Banks, Glenn

Banks, Glenn	Journal Article
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2008.

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Papua New Guinea, with its heavy dependence on natural resources, limited economic development in the past two decades, poor record of governance and high-profile separatist conflicts such as the Bougainville civil war, appears to be an exemplar of the 'Resource Curse' theory - the notion that natural resources actively undermine economic development. Using a number of examples from a range of scales, this paper argues that what appear to be 'resource' conflicts in Papua New Guinea are actually better conceived as conflicts around identity and social relationships. The very different conceptualisation of natural resources in most Melanesian societies - as elements of the social world as much as any external environmental sphere - means that resources become a conduit for local social and political agendas and tensions to be expressed. The nature of traditional conflict in Melanesian societies is discussed as a guide to the better management and resolution of what appear to be 'resource' conflicts in Papua New Guinea.

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Ethnic Conflict ; Natural Resources ; Papua New Guinea ; Resolution

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United States-Pakistan aid relationship: a genuine alliance or a marriage of convenience? / Ali, Murad; Banks, Glenn; Parsons, Nigel

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United States ; USAID ; WOT ; United States - Pakistan ; United States - Pakistan Aid Relationship ; Genuine Alliance ;
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