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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

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Big Claims and Baby Steps for Corporate Social Responsibility in India

ACORN International June 15, 2012 by digital

Mumbai    A week ago in Delhi I read an interesting argument on the op-ed page of the Economic Times by Kiran Karnik in which he argued that businesses in Indian needed to start going beyond the simple limits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and begin a direct “engagement with the government and, importantly, civil society …

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Walmart Concedes Involvement with Bribes in India, Too

ACORN International WalMart June 13, 2012 by digital

Mumbai    Some things are meant to be it seems.  Sitting in the Bengaluru airport before 6 AM in the morning waiting for a flight to Mumbai there was a rack of papers offered for free.  Failing to find the Times of India, I settled on Economic Times, another more business oriented daily I often read.  There …

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Obama and India FDI

ACORN International Community Organizations International Community Organizing International November 9, 2010November 9, 2010 by wade

New Orleans President Obama continues to sightsee and glad hand his way across India on his sales trip for US business interests, soft shoeing around the issue of jobs being outsourced to India, even as he argues to the US press that by meeting his sales quota over there, he will create jobs over here.  …

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