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New Issue of Compact Quarterly Spotlights Emerging Market Companies

New Issue of Compact Quarterly Spotlights Emerging Market Companies

Published 11-14-06

Submitted by United Nations Global Compact

(New York) - The Global Compact presents Issue 4, 2006 of the Compact Quarterly, a publication featuring articles, interviews and news on corporate responsibility.

This issue of the Compact Quarterly spotlights the role that corporate responsibility can play in the growth and success of emerging market companies, with the lead article contributed by Mr. Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the UNDP ("The Rise of Southern Multinationals: Towards a More Inclusive Globalization"). Additional articles and case stories on this topic are contributed by the International Finance Corporation ("IFC Investment Standards Drive Positive Change: Soy Production in the Amazon"), the UN Global Compact Office ("Are Emerging Market TNCs Sensitive to Corporate Responsibility Issues?") and CEMEX ("Building Business by Building Houses").

Other articles in the Compact Quarterly include "Human Security Solutions Require Sustainable Enterprise", "Conversation with Ernst Ligteringen on Sustainability Reporting", "Stepping-Up, Scaling-Up", as well as information on new corporate responsibility tools.

Read this issue of the Compact Quarterly: www.enewsbuilder.net/globalcompact

For more information on the Global Compact, please visit: http://www.unglobalcompact.org

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As the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Our ambition is to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through accountable companies and ecosystems that enable change. With the UN Global Compact, committed companies achieve sustainable value by delivering measurable impact to the world’s most pressing challenges. 

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