Corporations
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Some 182 labor and human rights codes of conduct have been adopted by
corporations
and industry associations around the globe.
Prodded by groups like the Workers Rights Consortium and the Ethical Trading Initiative, some
corporations
promise to pay living wages, open their factories to monitors, and even provide employees a voice in the workplace.
Consider the US, where since the 1960s a multicultural, gender-sensitive tradition of rights has been legitimized and codified in US law, within major corporations, inside governmental bureaucracies, and across the political spectrum.
Most big
corporations
favor "diversity" and boast of their compliance with civil rights and gender-equality laws.
Universities, along with churches, religious orders, guilds, and cities, were the original
corporations.
Commercial ventures came to be regularly treated as
corporations
only in the 19 th century.
Three large developments from last Wednesday through Saturday unnerved even some of Donald Trump’s Republican protectors, who had rationalized that, after all, he had cut taxes (mainly on the rich and corporations) and put two conservatives on the Supreme Court bench.
In 1984, Congress adopted an amendment that also denied Puerto Rico’s municipalities and public
corporations
access to Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.
Puerto Rico recently tried to enact legislation modeled on Chapter 9 that would allow for an orderly restructuring of the debt of public
corporations
and municipalities.
Their big
corporations
helped entrench racist regimes with notorious contract-labor systems that amounted to little more than slavery.
But sub-Saharan Africa’s potential relationship with global
corporations
need not be so limited.
Namibia’s government, for example, while recognizing that the country will never build a strong industrial base, takes a clear, balanced, and determined approach to attracting, and getting the most out of, multinational
corporations.
Worse, the recovery is likely to be anemic and sub-par – well below potential for a couple of years, if not longer – as the burden of debts and leverage of the private sector combine with rising public sector debts to limit the ability of households, financial firms, and
corporations
to lend, borrow, spend, consume, and invest.
While the language is complex – inviting costly lawsuits pitting powerful
corporations
against poorly financed governments – even regulations protecting the planet from greenhouse-gas emissions are vulnerable.
Furthermore, a “most favored nation” provision ensures that
corporations
can claim the best treatment offered in any of a host country’s treaties.
Obama has sought to perpetuate business as usual, whereby the rules governing global trade and investment are written by US
corporations
for US
corporations.
And the current regulatory environment increasingly allows for large
corporations
to wield power without accountability, resulting in higher monopoly rents and greater bargaining power.
China’s Corporate CrackdownBEIJING – Multinational
corporations
are under siege in China.
NEW YORK – Increasingly,
corporations
are under pressure, often from activist non-governmental organizations, to take on specific “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) obligations.
CSR can be divided into two categories: what
corporations
should do (say, contribute to a women’s rights NGO or build a village school) and what they should not do (say, dump mercury into rivers or bury hazardous materials in landfills).
The latter is wholly conventional and subject to regulation (and recently to questions about how
corporations
should behave when there are no host-country regulations).
This is the flip side of blaming
corporations
for everything from obesity to scalding from spilled coffee – both the subject of lawsuits in recent years.
First, the political reality is that society treats
corporations
as if they were persons, which is often also a legal reality for many purposes.
Given this reality,
corporations
want to give simply because it is expected of them.
Second, many
corporations
view CSR as an effective defensive strategy against powerful activist NGOs (such as Greenpeace) that have taken to using online agitation, boycotts, and other means to “blackmail” targeted
corporations
into acceding to the activists’ demands.
What Annan has done is to embrace ten wide-ranging guiding principles while leaving signatory
corporations
free to choose that which they wish to support actively.
Safeguarding CyberspaceCAMBRIDGE – Brazil recently hosted NETmundial, the first global conference on Internet governance, attended by 800 representatives of governments, corporations, civil-society organizations, and technologists.
At the same time, many emerging-market
corporations
borrowed in US dollars or euros, in some cases with little or no dollar revenues to match the dollar-denominated debt service.
That power can be used not only by governments, but also by non-state actors ranging from large
corporations
and non-profit organizations to criminals, terrorists, and informal ad hoc groups.
We proposed an alternative – similar to the way
corporations
are taxed within the US, with profits allocated to each state on the basis of the economic activity occurring within state borders.
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