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This thesis examines the economics of corporate social responsibility, with an emphasis on the role of financial markets and institutions. Questions that are raised are: What does corporate social responsibility mean in an economic context? What is the impact of corporate social responsibility on the financial performance of a company? What kind of role can a stock market play in trying to achieve sustainable development? What is the relation between corporate social responsibility, economic allocation, (re)-distributional effects and location choice? In this thesis, both theoretical and empirical research is presented in trying to answer these questions

The paper presents an active model of a social program and discusses its strategic advantage. The analyses made are based on a study of the experience of the Republic of Bulgaria in the transition period and afterward. Active social policies are considered and a methodology of development of an active social program is concerned examining characteristics of an active social program of human development and the components of the mechanism of social program activation.

RÉSUMÉ Le changement social en Chine depuis trente ans bouleverse profondément le pays et engendre de nouveaux défis. La double transition, conjuguant postcommunisme et modernisation, fait émerger des enjeux sans précédent, complexes et entrecroisés. Dans ce contexte, l'apparition de nouveaux acteurs et mouvements sociaux offre un champ d'observation pour l'avenir de cette transition, qui est une nouvelle étape de la construction de la modernité en Chine.

At a time of growing economic and social inequality in China, there is a tendency to invoke education as a great leveller but that rose-tinted view fails to take cognisance of the role of entrenched vested interests which are in fact nurturing educational disparities precisely because education helps to perpetuate them. Current arrangements in education in China can thus hardly help achieve or promote a harmonious society.(China Perspect/GIGA)

Géographie sociale : la dénomination est née, après maintes vicissitudes, de la volonté de penser et d'appréhender les relations entre phénomènes spatiaux et phénomènes sociaux. La réflexion sur la nature de ces relations, leur dynamique, la recherche méthodologique à appliquer, a bénéficié du double effet de révolution de la société et de la reconnaissance scientifique d'une nécessaire interdisciplinarité. Mais le mouvement ainsi crée est loin d'être achevé.

This paper aims to analyze the nature of the relationship between religion and science applied by UNIDA Gontor, especially the policy in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. This is done, at least for two reasons. First, UNIDA Gontor is the only higher education institution in the country that continues to carry out normal activities in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Second, UNIDA Gontor is an Islamic educational institution based on Islamic boarding schools. As library research, this paper uses a descriptive method. The results can be concluded that there are at least four patterns in building the relationship between religion and science: conflict, independence, dialogue, and integration. UNIDA Gontor uses an Integration model with the Islamization of knowledge in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. This is because UNIDA Gontor applies ihktiar al-diniyyah and al-ilmiyyah at the same time preventing the spread of Covid-19 infection. The two pledges were integrated within the framework of an Islamic worldview, thus, giving rise to three forms of strategic policies, namely; First, form a Covid-19 task force; second, involve elements of the government and IKPM Gontor; and the third, self-isolation. By consistently implementing these efforts, the entire academic community and students in the UNIDA Gontor environment can avoid and function normally even in the midst of the Covid-19 virus infection

In May of 2009, a posthumous video surfaced in which prominent lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg blamed Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom for murdering him. The accusations prompted the creation of numerous Facebook pages calling for Colom's resignation, and for justice for Rosenberg. Using interviews and a content analysis of Facebook comments from the two most-active Facebook groups, this study found that the social network site was used to mobilize an online movement that moved offline. Users' protest-related and motivational comments, in addition to their use of links and other interactive elements of Facebook, helped organize massive protests demanding justice and an end to violence.