The New Universe of Green Finance: From Self-Regulation to Multi-Polar Governance

Responsible Business: Self-Governance and Law in Transnational Economic Transactions

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 151-180

  Perez, Oren ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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