These include systematic social and environmental assessments, transparency of action and finance, acceptance of stakeholders in decision-making, favoring food production over mining, complying with international standards, ensuring that mining companies pass basic tests of ethics and competence, and fair sharing of royalties and taxes.
Many factors are associated with successful telemedicine applications, including demonstrable savings, adequate financing, acceptance by clinicians, improved access to healthcare and avoidance of travel for patients in rural and remote areas.
"It is good that sukuk and Islamic finance are gaining acceptance internationally, but regulators must be careful in doing this because they may not necessarily have experience in regulating this market," said Khairum Nizam, assistant secretary general of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Finance, based in Bahrain.
One of last year's winners, George Akerlof of the University of California at Berkeley, cited behavioral finance in his acceptance speech in criticizing the laissez-faire belief in markets as having contributed to the stock bubble.
Essentially, this covers aspects of the business and operational environment that are external to individual (and collective) business operations of firms within the sector, but internal to policy makers at national and EU level, such as legal and regulatory frameworks, infrastructure, knowledge, labour force and skills, access to finance and public acceptance.
The South American study (n=1) mentioned engagement, perspective, self-awareness, independence, acceptance, finances, environment and health.
was based just outside the forum and vehemently protested its acceptance of financing from "American multinationals".
In the world of finance, there was a general acceptance of the idea that banks and their regulators had developed sophisticated risk models to prevent a disaster.
"I urge every coal company to honestly assess the financial risks of business as usual; anticipate increasing regulation, growing finance restrictions and diminishing public acceptance," she said.
Our Spain correspondent, Giles Tremlett, explains: More importantly, a senior Madrid official insisted, Spain's request – and its acceptance by the finance ministers of the eurozone - would finally signal to markets that the euro was irreversible.
"She gave the right warning to investors that any new investment into coal-fired power plants is a financial risk as there will be increasing regulation, growing finance restrictions and diminishing public acceptance".
