The group recognized that an effective internal audit function plays a significant role within the corporate governance framework of a company.

The articulation of such technical assistance is undertaken in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals and within the framework of the UNIDO corporate strategy.

The various themes of the framework included trade policy, competition policy, investment policy, tax policy, corporate governance, public governance, infrastructure development and human resources development.

Strengthen the role of the audit committee of the board and establish the basic framework of information disclosure for environment, social responsibility and corporate governance (ESG).

Grundsatzkommission Corporate Governance (German Panel for Corporate Governance) (2000). Corporate Governance Rules for German Quoted Companies.

Furthermore, it was important to consider the framework of corporate accountability and to examine the relationship between voluntary and regulatory approaches so as to ascertain the complementarities between them.

Statement on Global Corporate Governance Principles. International Corporate Governance Network.

Revised Statement on Global Corporate Governance Principles. International Corporate Governance Network.

Finance Committee on Corporate Governance (2000). Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance.

Corporate Governance Committee (2004). The Belgian Code on Corporate Governance ('Lippens Code')

Committee on Corporate Governance (1999). Code of Best Practice for Corporate Governance.

Corporate strategy

Corporate responsibility

Corporate leaders realized that economic incentives accrued from being a good corporate citizen.

Committee on Corporate Governance (1997). Corporate Governance in the Netherlands Forty Recommendations (Peters Code).

European Corporate Governance Institute. (In particular, see index of corporate governance codes by country.

UNDP intends to leverage its investment in corporate initiatives such as its Enterprise Resource Planning (Atlas system) to progressively link financial resources to defined outcomes for results based reporting within the RBM framework.

Corporate specific reasons.

Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code (2005). The German Corporate Governance Code ('Cromme Code')

JPK Working Group I on Corporate Governance in Malaysia (2000). Report on Corporate Governance in Malaysia.

The Secret Corporate Takeover

The Corporate Tax Conundrum

Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?

Operationalizing the corporate strategy

Corporate and income tax

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised regarding the precise definitions of general terms such as corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and positive corporate contribution , and regarding the notion of a corporate responsibility for development, as well as UNCTAD's mandate in this regard.

Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa (Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance) (2001). Code of Best Practice of Corporate Governance.

General Motors Board of Directors (2000). GM Board of Directors Corporate Governance Guidelines on Significant Corporate Governance Issues.

Corporate strategy Vision 2006 2007

What Corporate Tax for Europe?

Expert Meeting on Positive Corporate

Commonwealth Association of Corporate Governance.

UNIDO's response to the global poverty challenge, as laid down in the Organization's medium term programme framework, 2004 2007, and in the corporate strategy, assigns a key role to the build up of local productive capacities in a private sector led, bottom up growth process driven by SMEs, with special emphasis on agro industries. Thus, the UNIDO corporate strategy proclaims that

The RFC document itself, individual programme documents and corporate Strategic Results Framework Results Oriented Annual Reports (SURF ROARs) that pertained to relevant years during the RCF were all considered as potentially viable bases for the assessment of performance.

(5) Corporate governance and its status

Quick example from the corporate world.

Compassion takes on a corporate dynamic.

The UNIDO corporate strategy states that

Internal audit and corporate risk management

(l) Forest ethics and corporate responsibility

Euroshareholders (2000). Euroshareholders Corporate Governance Guidelines.

Corporate Governance in Europe, KPMG Survey.

Treatment of corporate groups in insolvency

Indonesia took a great interest in the results of the research programme under the medium term programme framework, especially the part of component 4 that focused on building on successful experiences of corporate social responsibility to promote sustainable development.

As an example, Bangladesh published its Corporate Plan 2005 2009 A Framework for Action, which lays out a national vision to reduce the vulnerability of the people, especially the poor, to the effects of natural, environmental and human induced hazards .