Responding to the crisis: beyond economics

In the midst of the global financial crisis, what course should economics and development policies take? At the launch of the latest issue of Development (Vol 52 no3) on 29 October at the Church Centre, New York, Stephen Marglin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will be dissembling the current culture of economics. He will be joined by leading development thinkers such as David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, and key policy leaders...

After the crisis: the need for a new monetary system

As part of the ongoing discussion on Beyond Economics Development Vol 52 no 3 leading up to the journal launches in New York (29 October 2009) and The Hague (11 December 2009), Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed James Robertson, an independent writer and activist on economic alternatives (www.jamesrobertson.com). In 1984 he co-founded the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London. His latest book is The History of Money: From Its Origins to Our Time.

A way out of the crisis: Radical Ecological Democracy

In the continuing discussions around Beyond Economics Development Vol 52 no 3 Assistant Editor Laura Fano interviewed Ashish Kothari, founding member of the Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh (www.kalpavriksh.org) and former co-chair of the IUCN Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas.

Presentations and Notes on the workshop Microfinance at Risk

The workshop aimed to asses and discuss the impact of global crises on microfinance institutions.The panel consisting of Reynaldo Marconi, FOROLAC FR, Frank Streppel, Triodos Investment Management, Johan Bastiaensen, University of Antwerp and Harry Clemens (Hivos) discussed the impact of the financial crisis, economic crisis, and in context of development in the South: food crisis. Read the notes and the presentations. A paper by Reynaldo Marconi adressing the main theme will soon be publishe...