Regulating Transnational Corporations in Domestic and International Regimes : : An African Case Study / / Evaristus Oshionebo.

Africa's natural resources have been of interest to other areas of the world for centuries. During the nineteenth-century European colonization of Africa, raw materials such as rubber and diamonds were often extracted and exported by foreign businessmen and colonial governments. Today's tr...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction and Overview
  • 1. The Social Irresponsibility of Transnational Corporations in Africa's Extractive Industries
  • 2. Regulation of Corporations: Competing Models
  • 3. Environmental Regulation in Nigeria and Ghana: Two Case Studies of Regulatory Failure in the African Extractive Sector
  • 4. Complementary Regulatory Strategies: Self-Regulation and the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria and Ghana
  • 5. Multilateral African Regulatory Mechanisms
  • 6. The Regulation of Transnational Corporations under International Law
  • 7. International Financial Institutions as Regulatory Mechanisms: The World Bank Group and the African Extractive Sector
  • 8. Extraterritorial Regulation of Transnational Corporations in Their Home Countries
  • 9. Towards Effective Regulation of Transnational Corporations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index