An unprecedented global economic crisis demands unprecedented initiatives to restore growth. The World Bank Group is helping with the financial rescue but believes that we must remain focused on the human rescue for the many millions left behind. The Bank is calling for developed countries to pledge the equivalent of 0.7 percent of their stimulus packages, or as much as they can in additional money, to a global vulnerability fund to help developing countries, which can’t afford bailouts and deficits.
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briefing
Tags: developing world, firm, global, macro
http://voxeu.org/ Reported here by: SPMG, 3 August 2009
The debate on aid to Africa continues. This column argues that it is bad governments and institutions that cause poverty, not bad geography. Making sure aid reaches the poor will often mean not giving it to poor governments.
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briefing, commentary
Tags: developing world, global, macro, moral
A stimulus that favors poorer people is more likely to have a stronger impact on the entire economy.
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briefing
Tags: community, developing world, global, individual, macro
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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briefing, commentary
Tags: community, developing world, global, macro
This column feature profiles of people in various specialist fields who the Ecologist magazine believes have a demonstrated a clear vision for a better world. More»
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briefing
Tags: community, developing world, firm, global, individual, macro
www.newint.org Reported here by: SPMG, 20 May 2009
This is New Internationalist’s (NI) guide to the financial crisis. In the April 2009 ‘Put People First’ edition of New Internationalist, David Ransom looks at how the meltdown could signal the start of The Age Of Possibility and Vanessa Baird asks what changes the world economy needs.
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briefing
Tags: community, developing world, global, individual, macro
www.ted.com Reported here by: SPMG, 10 April 2009
Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how “patient capital” can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services — and dignity — to the world’s poorest.
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briefing
Tags: developing world, global, individual
I pray for the economy at all times, not just times of crisis, because as Christians we are to wish for and seek the welfare of others. There are few things that have more impact on the welfare of large groups of people, in the physical sense, than the state of the economy. More»
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commentary
Tags: community, developing world, firm, global, individual, macro, moral
www.ekklesia.co.uk Reported here by: SPMG, 20 March 2009
In an image-saturated world
a world of ubiquitous corporate logos
permeating your consciousness
a world of dehydrated and captive imaginations
in which we are too numbed, satiated and co-opted
to be able to dream of life otherwise
a world in which the empire of global economic affluence
has achieved the monopoly of our imaginations
in this world
Christ is the image of the invisible God…
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commentary
Tags: community, developing world, firm, global, individual, macro, moral