Corporate Social Responsibility, Its Limits and Opportunities for Mexico’s Development.
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27/11/2014Item status
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Vega Cárdenas, Jorge Adolfo
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Abstract
This paper aims to explore the opportunities and limitations of Corporate Social
Responsibility to improve Mexico’s development. This country is the 11th most relevant
economy in terms of its GDP, however it has about 45.5% of its population living in
poverty conditions. This disparity represents a development challenge that is address in
this paper based on CSR. This thesis considers a range of international indices as a
methodological approach to discover CSR opportunities and limitations for Mexico’s
development. These indices are: the Human Development Index by the United Nations
Development Programme, the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency
International, and the Rule of Law Index by the World Justice Project. These indices are
relevant because they illustrate Mexico's position on topics corresponding to CSR and
development. As a result of this methodology, this paper concludes that CSR presents
more opportunities than limitations for Mexico´s development in Human Rights
protection, corruption minimization and poverty alleviation to improve Mexico’s
development.