345-400 Tea
415-530 TNCs: Session 2 - ‘TNCs and Industrial
Linkages II’
Multinationals and
Inter-firm Relations in the Central European Countries : a ‘Varieties
of Capitalism’ Approach, Eric Rugraff, University Robert-Schuman
of Strasbourg
Restructuring and new linkages in the gold mining
sector of Ghana
Larsen, M.N. University of Copenhagen, Yankson, P., University of
Ghana, Fold, N. Uni. of Copenhagen
Mexican Food and Beverage Transnationals: Heterogeneity
and Homogeneity in a Globalising Industry
Alfredo Manuel Coelho Umr Moïsa Agro Montpellier and Victor
Manuel Castillo-Giron: Universidad de Guadalajara
Friday 23rd
1030 Coffee
1100-1215 TNCs: Session 3 - ‘TNCs and Corporate
Social Responsibility’
Is Serving the
Poor Profitably, Serving the Poor?
Andrew Crabtree, Copenhagen Business School
Risks
and Threats of FDI for the Recipient
David Durkee, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Exploring
Impact of FDI on host developing countries: The cases of Mali and
South Africa
Claire Mainguy, University of Strasbourg and Soeren Jeppesen, Copenhagen
Business School
1215-130 TNCs: Session 4 - ‘TNCs, Poverty
and Inequality’
TNCs, the nature
of FDI and impact on multidimensional poverty: Case study of Tamil
Nadu and Karnataka.
Meera Tiwari, UEL
FDI,
growth and poverty: does government policy matter? The case of Viet
Nam
Andrew Sumner, LSBU/Ngo Minh Tuan, Ministry of Planning and Investment,
Government of Viet Nam
Transnationals
and economic integration in small countries: Central America under
CAFTA (PDF)
Diego Sanchez, University of London
130-230 Lunch
230-345 EADI TNC group planning session – future meetings,
publications, etc.
345-400 Tea
Background and purpose
The meeting is a collaboration of 2 EADI WGs and 4 DSA SGs. At
the EADI general conference in Bonn, September 2005 the EADI TNC
WG proposed a meeting for June 2006. At the same time the DSA, Economics,
Finance and Development Study Group proposed a trade and investment
symposium in part as a pre-meeting to the DSA Annual conference
in November 2006 ('the Private Sector, Poverty Reduction and International
Development', Reading University). The purpose for the meeting is
to review the state of understanding in the area of trade and investment
and to set a future research agenda.
PART I: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
THURSDAY 22 JUNE, 10.30 AM - 12.00 NOON and 12.45 - 2.15 PM (followed
by part II)
Areas of interest/Call for papers
There are two particular areas in which we are requesting offers
of
papers:
1) The EU, the CAP, International Trade and Developing Countries
2) The EU's Economic Partnership Agreements - Development for Who?
In each case we anticipate inviting one presentation, so that there
will only be space for one additional offered presentation in each
session in order to ensure adequate time for discussion.
The aim is to end up with workshop papers which are no more than
7500 words long including references/footnotes. Presentations will
be 20 minutes followed by 25 minutes discussion.
Deadlines:
a) Offers of presentations - title only: Monday 16th January 2006
b) Abstracts for invited and agreed presentations: Monday 28th
February 2006
c) Presentations/Papers (for the DSA/EADI websites): Friday 30th
June 2006
Please send offers of presentations and abstracts (one page) to:
Mike Tribe (m.a.tribe@bradford.ac.uk)
PART II: TNCS AND DEVELOPMENT
Areas of interest/Call for papers
Three areas were identified by the EADI TNC WG at the EADI conference
in Bonn. These were:
1) TNCs and Poverty and Inequality
Few issues in the development process raise as much heat as the relationship
between TNCs and poverty and inequality. The linkages between TNCs
and both income and non-income poverty and inequality are neither
conceptually nor empirically clear. Recent FDI expansion in water,
sanitation, electricity and other utilities, interest in health and
education delivery and social security have further raised the question
of the impact of TNCs on multi-dimensional poverty in particular.
Additionally, shifts over the last twenty years towards more FDI in
services, more South-South FDI and in general more liberal FDI regimes
may all have various impacts on poverty and inequality. Papers will
explore these and other related issues.
2) TNCs and industrial linkages
Traditionally, industrial linkages have been seen as a way for developing
countries to counter the forces of globalization and compensate for
some of the resource and structural disadvantages that local industries
have vis-à-vis global markets. More recently growing attention
has been devoted to the interplay between foreign direct investment
(FDI) by TNCs and industrial clustering in developing countries. On
the one hand, FDI is attracted by the existence of linkages and may
directly and through spill overs contribute to the building and deepening
of these linkages. On the other hand, FDI may undermine industrial
linkages in developing countries through competition effects and by
introducing vertical modes of organization that is at odds with the
horizontal and nation based organization of local industrial linkages.
Papers on TNCs and industrial linkages will explore these and other
dilemmas associated with FDI and cluster based economic development
strategies.
3) TNCs and CSR
The growing economic power of TNCs and their political influence
have raised the demand that the Global Players take over responsibility
to shape globalization in accordance with environmental, human rights
and social standards. CSR has become a key word to express the voluntary
commitment of businesses for such sustainable development. CSR has
evolved rapidly over the past decade as more corporates have adopted
social responsibility reporting and codes of conduct. Engagement with
transnational corporations through business activity or wage labour
is an important form of income generation in many poor countries.
Following the G8 summit in 2005, some in the CSR community are facing
the challenge of assessing the contribution CSR is able to make to
poverty reduction in developing countries. There is need for more
empirical proof of the advantages and disadvantages of CSR measures
on the company and also on the level of political actors. Papers on
CSR should examine these or some aspect of the role of CSR in development
and poverty reduction.
4) New issues
There will be a session on ‘new issues’ or ‘hot
topics’ not included in the above to accommodate additional
papers.
PAPER SUBMISSION
The aim is to end up with workshop papers which are no more than
7500 words long including references/footnotes. Presentations will
be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion.
Deadlines:
Abstracts: 28th February 2006
Papers: 30th May 2006
