BUSINESS ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT 

BUSINESS ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT. Presented by: @00596786 @00576779.

SOCIETAL ISSUE: Poverty in the Country. The Country is particularly known around the world as the Soft Coral Capital of the World, because of its legendary underwater to explore, lagoons with marine life and other breathtaking landsacapes . Unfortunately, not all the population benfits from the turistic affluence as there is a high rate of poverty.

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WHAT CAUSES POVERTY IN FIJI SINCE 1987. Political instability Lack of education Lack of help from the government and local institutions.

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Business Ethics and No Poverty in Fiji. following the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility Facilitating training for individuals belonging to economically and socially weaker sections work in collaboration with NGOs to distribute free or discounted goods and services to financially weaker people facilitate both functional, technical and cognitive competencies.

Attaining the No Poverty Goal through Government and Institutional Responses.

GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES. Fiji National Development Plan is a 20year strategy which provides the forward-looking vision for transforming the Country. That touches the poverty aspect too.

HOW COVID IMPACTED THE PLAN TO REDUCE THE POVERTY ISSUE.

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REFERENCES:. Asian Development Bank. 2022. Poverty Data: Fiji. [Online]. Available at: https://www.adb.org/countries/fiji/poverty#:~:text=In%20Fiji%2C%2024.1%25%20of%20the,day%20in%202021%20was%200.2%25. [Accessed on: 05 November 2022]. Bryant-Tokalau, J. 2012. Twenty years on: Poverty and hardship in urban Fiji. Contributions to Linguistics, Geography and Ethnology/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 168(2-3), pp. 195-218. Emose, G. 2021. Sustainability bond for the Pacific feasibility study. In United Nations report of Economic and Social Commission For Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), pp. 1-45. Kiersch, C. and Gullekson, N. 2021. Developing character-based leadership through guided self-reflection. The International Journal of Management Education 19(3), p. 100573. Macrotrends. 2022. Fiji Poverty Rate 2002-2022. [Online]. Available at: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/FJI/fiji/poverty-rate [Accessed on: 05 November 2022]..

REFERENCES:. Statista. 2022a. Society - Fiji. [Online]. Available at: https://www.statista.com/outlook/co/society/fiji#number-of-households [Accessed on: 05 November 2022]. The World Bank. 2016. World Bank Group Opens Fiji Office. [Online]. Available at: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/05/24/world-bank-group-opens-fiji-office [Accessed on: 05 November 2022]. The World Bank. 2019. Major Boost for Fiji with Additional World Bank Support. [Online]. Available at: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2019/04/26/major-boost-for-fiji-with-additional-world-bank-support [Accessed on: 05 November 2022]. United Nations. 2016. Do You Know all 17 SDGs?. [Online]. Available at: https://sdgs.un.org/goals [Accessed on: 01 November 2022]. World Bank. 2018. Poverty and Equity Brief. [Online]. Available at:https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/531821528202548810/pdf/Fiji-poverty-and-equity-brief-spring-2018.pdf [Accessed on: 05 November 2022]..

REFERENCES. SLIDE 2: Strengthening Fiji’S national poverty policieS Strengthening Fiji’s national poverty policies in the context of regionalism rukmani gounder . (n.d.). [online] Available at: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/157863/1/222_strengthening.pdf . ‌ SLIDE 4: Borgen Project (2018). Five Important Things to Know About Poverty in Fiji . [online] The Borgen Project. Available at: https://borgenproject.org/poverty-in-fiji/ . ‌ SLIDE 8: Think Pacific. (n.d.). Our Impact . [online] Available at: https://thinkpacific.com/about-think-pacific/fiji-national-development-plan/ . ‌ MIISTRY OF ECONOMY (n.d.). 5-Year & 20-Year NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN . [online] Available at: https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/linked-documents/LD4%205yr%20and%2020yr%20DP%20Transforming%20Fiji.pdf . ‌ SLIDE 9: Philipp, J. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on Poverty in Fiji . [online] The Borgen Project. Available at: https://borgenproject.org/the-impact-of-covid-19-on -poverty-in-fiji/ . ‌.