While traditional financing approaches such as federal and state grants funded by taxation are insufficient to address the existing need, innovative financing such as novel public private partnership models, credit enhancement tools, and new bonding instruments has emerged to expand the fiscal...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the potential and limitations of donor-financed management tools that seek to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. Drawing on key insights from three streams of literature...

ANTONIO VIVES ARGUES THAT MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS ARE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DRIVERS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR). TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEIR UNIQUE POSITION AS HONEST BROKERS, THEIR GLOBAL REACH AND THEIR DEVELOPMENTAL OBJECTIVES THAT COINCIDE WITH THOSE OF CSR, THEY...