A presentation by Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super in Australia, providing an update on the global financial crisis (May 2009) and what is happening from an Australian perspective. It concludes with a brief reflection on its implications for Christian stewardship.
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Argues that while we are likely done with a panic or free fall phase, we have only just begun to deal with the deeper problems revealed by the global financial crisis. See also Johnson’s presentation on the global financial crisis as at May 2009 here http://baselinescenario.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/global-crisis-for-sloan-alums-june-6-2009.pdf Asking is it over yet?
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In late May the World Bank and IMF held a joint conference on Managing Systemic Crises and Redesigning Financial Systems. Check out presentations here.
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This compendium of crisis policy papers from the World Bank’s Human Development Network poses a number of key questions including: Are there lessons from recent crises to help us protect people’s physical and social well-being during these highly uncertain times? What can governments do to
safeguard their human gains of previous decades? How severe will the crisis be and how long will the current crisis last?
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http://voxeu.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 11 June 2009
The tipping point is a popular theory of social behaviour with many applications. This column says that Thomas Schelling’s original model of racially segregated neighbourhoods, while theoretically attractive, is strongly rejected by US data.
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In an economic downturn who will people trust as as their leaders - those with experience, or those with intuition, self confidence or sheer luck?
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Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, advocates the importance of moral reasoning for education in a secular society.
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