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The ResponsibleChina Show: Courtney McColgan and Casey Wilson, Wokai.org
With about 300 million people living below the poverty line in China, microfinance–most commonly defined as small loans for impoverished individuals to help them achieve financial self-sufficiency–is an attractive option. Wokai.org, “a capital-contributing microfinance intermediary,” is trying to bring money to Chinese entrepreneurs who want to set up like set up their own small businesses, [...]
Another CSR blog: China Crossroads
Shanghai-based Richard Brubaker, founder and managing director of China Strategic Development Partners, has a new blog, and it covers many of the same issues I touch upon here. I interviewed Brubaker back in 2005 about youth volunteerism in China, and he told me all about community-based volunteer organization Hands On Shanghai, which he helped to [...]
China, Blood Oil and Darfur
What do you know about the link between China and Darfur? And how might it affect your business? In June, through a unanimous vote , the U.S. House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution, urging China to stop selling arms to Sudan and to cut economic ties with the genocidal regime. Now it looks like [...]
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You’re here because you’re interested in China, committed to corporate global citizenship, or concerned about the future of our environment–or all three, I hope. We live in an increasingly globalizing, inter-connected planet, where businesses, communities, technology and media impose equal consequences on our society’s environmental, economic, social and political well-being. As you begin reading ResponsibleChina.com, [...]
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