The IMF, World Bank and key regulatory agencies like the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) based in Basel should establish internationally agreed codes of best practices on monetary, financial and fiscal policy and corporate governance.

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Yet the big-brand companies still claim to have proper codes of conduct for labour practices.

ECONOMIST: Sportswear

After all, the court is to adopt, and its activities are to be governed by, a hodgepodge of legal codes and practices.

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These traditions and practices constitute their codes of ethics and governance systems, and include prayers, oath-taking, burial rites and charms, naming of the newly born, initiations, reconciliation, marriages and coronations.

UNESCO: Culture

As firms lunge into emerging markets, they also find themselves more exposed to another increasingly global set of actors: activist pressure groups, urging them to adopt international codes of ethical conduct that commit them to better practices with regard to the environment and human rights.

ECONOMIST: Bad attitudes

Just as big a miscue as the actual QR code software is the inefficient practices in the marketing world in terms of how QR codes are actually used.

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