This case study analyzes the design, delivery, and sustainability of INSOTEC?s technology access services, which are offered to small and microenterprises working in the textiles sector in Ecuador. Three key elements to offering sustainable business development services are highlighted: taking a...

Investor activists have waged a campaign to increase corporate political spending disclosure and board oversight since 2004, through shareholder resolutions filed for consideration at corporate annual meetings. In 2010, average support for these resolutions reached 30 percent - an unusually high...

Corporate accountability and disclosure of political expenditures appears to be increasing, with the boards of 31 percent of S&P 500 companies now explicitly overseeing such spending, compared to 23 percent in 2010. However, this increased oversight and transparency does not appear to correlate...

This project looks at how corporations oversee and govern money spent on corporate lobbying at the state level. It establishes a baseline for that spending by a representative sampling of the biggest U.S. publicly-listed corporations. Alongside intense public and investor attention about...

Business development services (BDS) were highlighted as an area for future work in the Inter-American Development Bank?s micro-enterprise development strategy paper, MICRO 2001, which was presented at the Promoting Growth With Equity Conference in November 1995. Since the Bank?s experience in...