http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:25:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.relationshipsfoundation.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 8 August 2009 This interim report considers aspects of current company structure, its strengths and weaknesses, and looks at what companies are for and their responsibilities to those who rely on them for their well-being. It considers various approaches to meet particular concerns and explains why these ... http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=516 http://voxeu.org/  Reported here by: SPMG, 7 August 2009 Mortgage-backed securities have played a major role in the financial crisis and aren’t very popular as a result. This column documents macroeconomic benefits of these instruments, showing that economies with more developed markets for securitised mortgage debt share more consumption risk with other economies.  http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=742 http://www.thinkingfaith.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 7 August 2009  Since the onset of the financial crisis, there has been an increase in the number of people in London engaging in voluntary work – work that can be a way of practising and expressing austerity . Andrea Kelly, Coordinator of London Jesuit Volunteers, describes ... http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=738 http://voxeu.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 3 August 2009 In numerous poor or stagnating countries, politicians are ineffective and corrupt, public goods are under-provided and public policies confer rents to privileged élites, law enforcement is inadequate, and moral hazard is widespread inside public and private organisations. There is not just one institutional ... http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=694 http://www.thinkingfaith.org/  Reported here by: SPMG, 3 August 2009  What do we need to do in order to live a good life, and why should we want to do this? John Moffatt SJ looks at different approaches to developing an ethical framework, and examines the relationship of religion to various ethical traditions. http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=727 http://voxeu.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 6 August 2009 This column introduces timelines, produced by the New York Fed, that organise and illustrate policymakers’ responses to the global financial crisis. Over the past two years, and particularly since the intensification of the global financial crisis in the fall of 2008, new ... http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=719 http://www.economist.com/  Reported here by: SPMG, 6 August 2009 This special report suggests the contract between society and banks will get stricter. Nothing highlights the scale of banking’s upheaval better than the intervention of governments. An industry that embodied the free market turns out to be pathetically dependent on the state for its ... http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=617 http://voxeu.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 6 August 2009 Aid critics have recently been blaming aid as the source of Africa’s poverty. This column explains how Africa has long been struggling with rural poverty, tropical diseases, illiteracy, and lack of infrastructure and that the right solution is to help address these critical needs ... http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=614 http://www.ft.com/  Reported here by: SPMG, 6 August 2009 There is a risk that empirically dubious but emotionally attractive interpretations of the financial crisis, which condemn markets and call for more statism, could gain ground. http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=541 http://www.thinkingfaith.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 5 August 2009 Easter Monday 2009 marked the 28th anniversary of the martyrdom of Monseñor Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, who once said, ‘as a Christian, I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the ... http://blog.stpaulsreport.org/blog3/?p=708