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CSR and Trade: Informing Consumers about Social and Environmental Conditions of Globalised Production: Part I

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Barbara Fliess
Hyung-Jong Lee
Olivia L. Dubreuil
Osvaldo Agatiello ()
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Focusing on consumer demands in OECD markets and voluntary initiatives taken in the private sector, this study investigates how consumers are informed about the social and environmental conditions under which products have been produced. Consumers of OECD increasingly attach importance to how companies they buy from conduct their business, and the voluntary adoption of CSR policies is spreading in the private sector. But how do consumers know...

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Paper provided by OECD Trade Directorate in its series OECD Trade Policy Working Papers with number 47.

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