Augmenting teaching resources at UCAN
Client/funder:
Statoil
Start date:
Mar 2007 (Completed)
Project members:
Arne Wiig (project leader), Ivar Kolstad
Thematic research group:
Poverty Reduction
Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ethics
Natural resource management
Geographical keywords:
Angola
Last update: April 2010
The purpose of this project is to produce up-to-date teaching materials for use at the Universidade Católica de Angola (UCAN). The project is a joint endeavour of CMI and UCAN staff. The first phase consists of producing a compendium of texts on the topic of Business Ethics. Similar materials in the areas of Public Sector Ethics, and Natural Resource Management, will be produced in subsequent phases.
Publications
Por que as empresas não deviam sempre maximizar os lucros
Kolstad, Ivar (2007)
in Kolstad, I., Wiig, A. e de Andrade, V. P. (Eds.): Ética de negócio - Compêndio para ser usado no ensino da ética de negócio na Universidade Católica de Angola (UCAN). Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute pp. 77-91
Former director of CMI, Just Faaland, has received the Merdeka award. Faaland is awarded for his role in the formulation of the National Economic Policy (NEP).
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This report analyses poverty and well-being in the rural district of Murrupula, revisiting four local communities and a total of 120 households, three years after the first study in 2006.
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Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted 15 million NOK to fund a three-year research and capacity building programme between CMI and the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) focusing on Inclusive Growth and Good Governance.
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Detained in solitary confinement, tortured, exiled and eventually blown up by a car bomb. From an early age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. Later in life he helped draft South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution, and served as a member of the Constitutional Court for fifteen years. Sachs talks to host Siri Gloppen about his life and role as a judge in the formative years of post-apartheid South Africa.
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Once a vibrant and dynamic society, Zimbabwe has since the turn of the millennium gone through a complex multilayered and pervasive series of catastrophes. Political instability, lawlessness, misgovernment and a relentless economic meltdown has transformed this leading southern African nation into an international pariah.
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