Introduction: Multistakeholder regulation from a development perspective / Peter Utting -- Development and the problematic of non-state regulation / Darryl Reed -- Activism, business regulation, and development / Peter Utting -- Assessing the ETI codes of labour practice / Stephanie Barrientos and Sally Smith -- Social Accountability 8000 and socioeconomic development / Andreas Rasche and Dirk Ulrich Gilbert -- The International Organization for Standardization / Stepan Wood -- The United Nations Global Compact and development / Catia Gregoratti -- The global reporting initiative : promise and limitations / David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown -- Balanço social and sustainability reporting in Brazil / Eduardo R. Gomes and Ana Maria Kirschner -- The Forest Stewardship Council / Graeme Auld and Benjamin Cashore -- The Marine Stewardship Council / Graeme Auld -- The global G.A.P. / Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs -- Global retail accumulation strategies and Wal-mart's CSR regime / Ngai-Ling Sum -- Applying the Atlanta Agreement on Child Labour in South Asia / Peter Lund-Thomsen and Khalid Nadvi -- The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) / Carola Kantz -- Blood diamonds, non-state actors, and development : the Kimberley Process and beyond / Ian Smillie -- Peoples' tribunals in Latin America / Marcelo Saguier -- The Worker Rights Consortium / Don Wells -- International framework agreements and development / Nikolaus Hammer -- IFOAM and the institutionalization of organic agriculture / René Audet and Corinne Gendron -- "Fair trade gold" : prospects for Africa's artisanal miners / Gavin Hilson and Paul Kamlongera -- The World Fair Trade Organization : from trust to compliance / Eileen Davenport and William Low -- Fairtrade International (FLO) / Darryl Reed -- Comercio Justo México : potential lessons for fairtrade? / Alastair M. Smith and Francisco VanDerHoff Boersma -- From non-state regulation to governance? : shifting the site of contestation / Darryl Reed and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed.

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