2005 4 UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan

2005 4 UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan

Action points should appear in the new UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan.

Explanatory note on the UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan (DP 2005 CRP.9)

Adopted decision 2005 4 of 28 January 2005 on the UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan

The Executive Board endorsed the corporate gender strategy of UNDP and the interim action plan for 2005.

14. Reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

It coordinates the corporate work programme by preparing and monitoring the Centre's business plan and by carrying out the key functions of programme and project evaluation, resource mobilization and corporate communication.

12. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

11. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

These documents provide the basis for focusing the work of UNICEF for children through its time bound corporate plan.

Takes note of the explanatory note on the UNDP corporate gender strategy and action plan (DP 2005 CRP.9)

These revenue losses could be offset by curtailing so called corporate tax expenditures deductions, credits, and other special tax provisions that subsidize some economic activities while penalizing others and broadening the corporate tax base. Both President Barack Obama s plan for business tax reform and the Simpson Bowles deficit reduction plan propose reducing such expenditures to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Improving resource mobilization is now included as one of the global priorities in the new UNHCR corporate plan for 2007 2009.

This third annual report on progress against the 2002 2005 medium term strategic plan (MTSP) follows a thorough mid term review of the current plan and was prepared concurrently with the development of a new corporate plan for 2006 2009.

The implementation of the ICT strategic plan is dependent on the overall corporate strategy action plan, as the future structure of UNOPS will determine the structure and resource requirements of the ICT environment.

The Executive Board requested a corporate gender strategy and action plan, for which the gender unit submitted a revised version in April 2005.

There is no inconsistency between a progressive, balanced deficit reduction plan and lowering the corporate tax rate. Of all taxes, corporate taxes are the most harmful to economic growth without which meaningful deficit reduction is far more difficult to achieve.

The conventional thinking is that as traders buy and sell corporate stocks more often, they induce corporate managers to plan for shorter and shorter horizons. If institutional investors refuse to hold stocks for more than a few months, the thinking goes, CEOs time horizons for corporate planning must shrink to roughly the same timeframe.

He welcomed the proposal for promoting a better understanding of international investment issues and noted the plan to facilitate and enhance positive corporate social contributions.

In lieu of raising the gas tax, Obama has proposed a four year 302 billion plan to close the existing HTF funding gap, and boost HTF spending by 20 billion a year above current levels. His plan, which relies on using transitional corporate tax revenues raised in conjunction with corporate tax reform, has virtually no chance of becoming law this year.

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

President Barack Obama s administration is seeking to block corporate inversion through administrative measures that may not hold up in US courts. It would be far better to develop a bipartisan legislative plan aimed at removing the temptation to shift corporate headquarters in the first place.

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.

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

A high level policy board will provide strategic guidance and policy oversight to ensure that learning is strategically linked to corporate objectives and is effective in helping reach the organizational targets of this plan.

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.