Author : Tomiwa Ogunrinde
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346448061
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (464 download)
Book Synopsis Norway Oil Fund. How Norway's Oil Fund Investment Policy Can Be Ethical by : Tomiwa Ogunrinde
Download or read book Norway Oil Fund. How Norway's Oil Fund Investment Policy Can Be Ethical written by Tomiwa Ogunrinde and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: A, University of Ibadan, language: English, abstract: Norway experienced an economic surpluses following improvement of its hydrocarbon resources during the 70s. This reality changed the fate of the country and they made plan for the future towards economic sustainability. This was the birth of the Norway Oil Fund also known as Government Pension Fund-Global (GPF-G). The Sovereign Wealth Fund exists as a drawn out monetary saving guaranteeing that Norway not simply the current age profit and appreciate from the nation oil riches. The Fund is $1tn and owns an average of 1.4 per cent of every listed company worldwide. The GPF-G was charged with making investment in areas that promote corporate governance, sustainable development in economic, social, and environmental terms. However, the GPF-G has come under domestic and international pressure over ethical violations in the manner in which the fund are said to have been invested in companies that promotes gambling, alcohol, forced labour, cluster bombs and nuclear weapons