Widespread disappointment with compliance auditing in supply chains has led to a search
for new governance solutions in global industries. Recent scholarship on labour standards …

Developing country labor practices and the working conditions that result from them are both
generally poor and increasingly drawing attention from governments, corporations, and the …

Building state capacity has often been hailed as a cure-all for the ailments of the developing
world and has been linked to human rights improvements, economic development, and the …

Using a six-year study of Better Work Lesotho (BWL), this article examines whether the ILO's
Better Work initiative leads to improvements in labor standards compliance. Data include 55 …

Sustainable Development (SD) and its pillars are well known, and the need for integrating
the social, economic and environmental aspects in development is widely accepted. A topic …

This special issue focuses on transnational governance, essentially cross-border networked
forms of co-ordination in which non-state, or private, actors play important or leading roles in …

One of the potential benefits of public–private partnerships (PPPs) is its capacity to
enhance account-ability. Although the South African government has made several efforts to …

South Africa, like other developing countries, has joined other nations around the world in
resorting to public–private partnerships (PPPs) as an integral strategy to improve its deeply …

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are gaining popularity in port development projects
especially in developing countries. A key question emerges that why private companies are …

Questions about the 'effectiveness' of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been raised
for quite some time now. Although implementation and performance problems are given …