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In October 2001 he became President of the association Delovaya Initsiativa (Business Initiative).

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Inspired by the Global Compact's 2002 policy dialogue on business and sustainable development, this initiative facilitates business led enterprise solutions to poverty reduction.

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Another policy initiative has been to promote leasing arrangements to help SMEs meet their needs for business equipment.

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UNOPS refined its mission and vision by early 2004 and implemented an aggressive business acquisition initiative throughout the year.

In social, in education and in our business, don't value play.

If a business partnership was involved, spouses could pay social insurance and build up their own social insurance record.

A recent initiative was proposed under the Global Compact umbrella in Johannesburg entitled Growing Sustainable Business in the Least Developed Countries .

Within the set of strategic business cases of the system wide ICT strategy, the ICT Network has recently identified a business case preparation and costing initiative which will further standardize the costing methodology.

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A lot of people say now that business will lift up the developing economies, and social business will take care of the rest.

The initiative aims, in particular, to identify and promote business practices that are sensitive to local communities, especially those affected by conflict.

The panellist from McKinsey highlighted the importance of social trends and the long term influence of social factors on business development.

They can be found in different social sectors sport, entertainment, the media, science, education, business.

It also highlights the key role of appropriate policy and regulatory frameworks in encouraging private initiative in a dynamic and well functioning business sector.

The success of social entrepreneurship, which applies a business approach to a social concern, is identified as one underutilized solution for addressing youth unemployment.

The fact that in many developing countries a large part of landed property is not formally registered thus creates an obstacle to financing business initiative.

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The Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) initiative for poverty reduction, adopted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to facilitate and increase investment and business activities that have a positive impact on sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals.

A contributory factor to the considerable progress being made in Brazil and the Philippines in this area is the presence of business supporting organizations, respectively the Ethos Institute and the Philippine Business for Social Progress, with an interest in corporate social responsibility.

The Mi'kmaq Nova Scotia Canada Tripartite Forum's Economic Development Committee has put forward a number of initiatives focused on enhancing Aboriginal skills and employment, including Open for Business, an initiative focused on Aboriginal youth and developing entrepreneurship and business skills.

To facilitate that cooperation, the Summit of heads of State and Government also featured the Asia Africa Business Summit, which focused on exploring business opportunities and promoting trade and investment and ways to generate the required resources for the initiative.

The European Union welcomed the ongoing international debate on corporate social responsibility, business ethics, accountability and transparency.

And I'm hopeful because it's not only philanthropy that's reorganizing itself, it's also whole other portions of the social sector, and of business, that are busy challenging business as usual.

An initiative promoted by the United Nations Capital Development Fund and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat.

Social capital generates different levels of trust, which is a precondition for people to do business with another.

They form part of a growing trend towards corporate social responsibility and self regulation and include the Ethical Trading Initiative, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Global Compact initiated by the Secretary General of the United Nations.

So why is the Bush administration spending time and energy proposing radical changes to the Social Security System as its signature domestic policy initiative indeed, as virtually its only policy initiative? Everyone who worries about America s weak fiscal position puts Social Security s relatively small funding imbalance far down the list of priorities.

These leading, innovative, nonprofit folks, who are using business skills in a very leveraged way to solve social problems.

The initiative results from the work of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development Sustainable Mobility Group and is being facilitated and implemented by the Global Road Safety Partnership.

Pointing to the example of the ILO Tripartite Declaration, he emphasized the need to look also at qualitative aspects of corporate contributions, including matters related to social protection, social dialogue and the business impact on social institutions.

So any accusations of corruption or backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.