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http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Corporations/social_responsibility/
The Responsible Competitiveness Index is increasingly used by investment banks and global retailers to guide their investment and purchasing decisions. “The report demonstrates the practical potential of responsible competitiveness strategies to deliver trade and investment”, says Pascal Lamy, “while striking the right balance between national and global interests, and public and private gain”.
The report carries essays from leading global experts like Sir Nicholas Stern, Laura Tyson, Guy Ryder and Günter Verheugen. They identify major opportunities in more responsbile markets in climate change, gender, human rights and anti-corruption. Taken together, these markets will be worth at least US$750 billion by 2050. Smart businesses, climate friendly cities, sunrise sectors and responsible countries can win massive market shares in the global markets of tomorrow. Others will fail to coordinate their strategies and lose out.
The State of Responsible Competitiveness pinpoints the winners in the current line-up to compete responsbily. “Just as importantly,” says AccountAbility CEO and report co-author Dr Simon Zadek, “we show what each and every country can do to do better in global trade”.
http://www.accountability21.net/publications.aspx?id=878
So how do the countries rank?
Country Rank
Sweden 1
Denmark 2
Finland 3
Iceland 4
United Kingdom 5
Norway 6
New Zealand 7
Ireland 8
Australia 9
Canada 10
Germany 11
Netherlands 12
Switzerland 13
Belgium 14
Singapore 15
Austria 16
France 17
United States 18
Japan 19
Hong Kong, China 20
A common criticism is that advanced economies have often moved their more dirty industries to other parts of the world where there are less stringent environmental and social standards. As a result, other countries may be polluting on their behalf, and these indexes do not factor those in.
Comments?
The Free Market Index: Buy what you want, don't buy what you don't want.
No other index is needed, except to reduce the market's freedom.
Freedom! :D
The Free Market Index: Buy what you want, don't buy what you don't want.
No other index is needed, except to reduce the market's freedom.
Freedom! :D
Assuming there is choice and that it will always remain so. After all, not much to choose from between a rock and a hard place is there?:)
cosmictraveler 08-24-07, 09:41 PM Isn't it a shame that we can't have a state of cooperativeness?
Isn't it a shame that we can't have a state of cooperativeness?
Isn't it a shame that Darwinism is lost on so many?
Survival isn't only about the practiced ability to cuddle.
Isn't it a shame that Darwinism is lost on so many?
Survival isn't only about the practiced ability to cuddle.
How does survival of the fittest have relevance when the economically lucky can buy their way out of genetic disorders, while the economically screwed die for lack of potable water?
Not taking sides, yet, just wondering what people will answer with.
spuriousmonkey 08-29-07, 03:45 AM How does survival of the fittest have relevance when the economically lucky can buy their way out of genetic disorders, while the economically screwed die for lack of potable water?
Not taking sides, yet, just wondering what people will answer with.
The nice thing of the survival of the fittest is that you don't have to worry about it. it all happens automatically.
The same people that loudly proclaim to lovin' survival of the fittest are usually the same people that just love to nag about the excessive breeding of the fittest. You can hear them bitch about poor people and immigrants breeding like winners. You can hear them nag about dumb people breed like winners.
In fact the only thing they do is nag and bitch, while they should be breeding.
They are keen though on disrupting the natural process of survival of the fittest by proclaiming that only 'their kind of people' should be allowed to breed.
It's not really difficult you know, breeding. You stick the stick in the hole till the white juice flows. End of story. however, even such a simple task is beyond them. That's why we cannot really rely on them to be coherent in their desires I guess.
To proclaim to love survival of the fittest, and to bitch at the same time about the fittest' survival.
Needless to say many of these people also do not believe in evolution. :eek:
Baron Max 08-29-07, 07:23 AM The same people that loudly proclaim to lovin' survival of the fittest are usually the same people that just love to nag about the excessive breeding of the fittest. You can hear them bitch about poor people and immigrants breeding like winners. You can hear them nag about dumb people breed like winners.
Huh? When "the fittest" go out shooting and hanging those minority breeders, y'all liberal doo-gooders whine and bitch and pass laws against shooting and hanging those minorities!
And when the minority breeders begin starving to death, you damned liberal doo-gooders go out and give 'em food .....so they can continue to breed!!
Baron Max
Does anyone else have the suspicion that Baron Max is some manner of app that randomly says things that are supposed to offend "liberals?" Like those fortune cookie generators, or the http://www.elsewhere.org/pomopostmodernism generator?
Anyways, spurious, that's a good point. The more intelligent have traditionally had fewer children, and the pattern has held for at least a few thousand years (according to my wildly unscientific sampling). Somehow we've managed.
spuriousmonkey 08-29-07, 01:03 PM Anyways, spurious, that's a good point. The more intelligent have traditionally had fewer children, and the pattern has held for at least a few thousand years (according to my wildly unscientific sampling). Somehow we've managed.
The less intelligent people the better. They come up with things such as nuclear bombs and the final solution.
Has anyone ever witnessed a sloth doing something similar? The worst thing a sloth does is to defecate at the base of a tree. Well, that is kind of nice actually because he could just take a dump when he is hanging from a branch, and a natural historian accidently passing by might be pelted by a hard green turd.
I'm all for an eugenics program for smart people. And it basically already exists in the form of PhD programs.
How does survival of the fittest have relevance...
I said Darwinism.
You said "survival of the fittest".
Attend.
Dinosaurs appear to have been the fittest land animals for some 250+ Million years.
Then a big, dumb impacting space rock seems to have killed them all.
So much for fit insuring survival.
...the economically lucky can buy their way out of genetic disorders, while the economically screwed die for lack of potable water
Darwinism, before your very eyes and unseen. ;)
POW!!
spuriousmonkey 08-31-07, 04:39 AM Enlighten us with what you mean with Darwinism.
The less intelligent people the better. They come up with things such as nuclear bombs and the final solution.
Has anyone ever witnessed a sloth doing something similar? The worst thing a sloth does is to defecate at the base of a tree. Well, that is kind of nice actually because he could just take a dump when he is hanging from a branch, and a natural historian accidently passing by might be pelted by a hard green turd.
I'm all for an eugenics program for smart people. And it basically already exists in the form of PhD programs.
Yes, but then everyone will die of smelly and preventable diseases, and when the sun fuses itself to a crisp, we will be stuck on Earth dying of smelly and preventable diseases.
Mr. G:
Umm. Okay, I suppose you've got me there.
Enlighten us with what you mean with Darwinism.
No. Not my problem. ;)
Umm. Okay, I suppose you've got me there.
Not my problem. ;)
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