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1.
Who's Who in CSR in India - A Resource Guide 2006
After the resounding success of its inaugural
edition of Who’s Who in CSR in India: A Resource
Guide in 2004, and on the basis of popular
demand, CSM decided to bi-annually update this
publication. This time, the value added was a far
more enriched set of entries and a new
section on CSR awards. The Resource Guide was launched
in New Delhi on April 26, 2006 and generated much
attraction and demand. If you are interested in this
unique publication, do hurry and place your order now!
To book your order, click here.
To read more about Who's Who in CSR in India :A Resource
Guide 2006,
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2.
Socially Responsible Investment in India
This
research, carried out in partnership with the Association
for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (AsrIA),
was a pioneering work that the Centre for Social Markets
did in India, followed by India's first ever conference
on SRI in India: Prospects and Challenges
in 2003. This was part of a series of country reports
produced on China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia,
the Philippines and Thailand. It provides an overview
of SRI in India and looks at the way forward.
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3. Business and Economic Development
The
Centre for Social Markets (CSM) is a Founder Member
of the Responsible Competitiveness Consortium (RCC),
launched in December in Brazil. As a part of their efforts,
the RCC members - the Institute for Social and Ethical
Accountability (AccountAbility, UK), Instituto Ethos
(Brazil), Fundacio Dom Cabral (Brazil), ProHumana (Chile),
African Institute for Corporate Citizenship (AICC),
PALTrade (Palestine), Business for Social Responsibility
(BSR, USA) and others forming a nine-country consortium
conducted Phase II of a research on Business and Economic
Development, exploring how far businesses were aware
of the economic impact of their core activities on the
markets they served. The research spanned four crucial
sectors: the financial sector, the pharmaceutical sector,
the agricultural sector and the extractive industries
sector. CSM was entrusted with research on the first
two sectors. A brief insight is provided here below:
This
research, conducted by the UK- and India-based Centre
for Social Markets (CSM), forms Phase II of
the research programme on "Business and Economic
Development: The Impact of Corporate Responsibility
Standards and Practices: Insights from Recent Experiences",
launched by AccountAbility and Business
for Social Responsibility. It addresses the
following research question:
How
well do the pharmaceutical and financial sectors, and
their key players, understand the economic impacts1
of its activities and act to manage them to ensure desired
outcomes and enhances corporate impacts on low income,
excluded and disadvantaged communities?
Unlike
previous research addressing the question of the economic
development impact of business, CSM will be using a
product/service-based approach to understand the economic
impact of the pharmaceutical and financial service providers
in question.
This
research, concluded some time ago, have the global reports
forthcoming…
Publication
of CSM Reports for Pharmaceutical and Financial Sector
in India scheduled for Fall 2006.
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Economic impacts take many forms. Direct impacts include
monies paid to employees, suppliers, investors, governments,
while indirect impacts relate to how those monies are
used in subsequent decisions by those actors. At the
broader level, CSM will assess the extent to which companies
understand and/or report on their economic impacts in
terms of their direct economic impacts - payments to
employees, suppliers, investors, government; efforts
to understand and report on their indirect impacts or
supply multiplier, which are the second round impacts
of that expenditure - such as employment created in
supplier companies; and a step further, their induced
impacts or income multiplier which measures the subsequent
impacts. Having an understanding of companies direct,
indirect and induced impacts may be useful to make comparisons
across sectors and regions.
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4. All-India Survey on Charities
Administration
The
Centre for Social Markets undertook
a 2-month research project on charities administration
in West Bengal.
The
project is part of an All-India Survey on Charities
Administration being conducted by Sampradaan
Indian Centre for Philanthropy for the Planning
Commission, Government of India. CSM was commissioned
to conduct this project in West Bengal.
The
OBJECTIVE of the research was:
1. to find out whether West Bengal, in practice, has
been able to promote charity and social action, the
purpose for which the various laws were enacted and
to ensure which state agencies were set up
2. to suggest, on the basis of the All-India sample
review, how the objectives can be more effectively met
by reform of existing institutions or through establishing
of alternative agencies.
For more information, please contact Dr. Tapati Ghosh
at tapati@csmworld.org
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