Actors

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• Amin, Samir
  Samir Amin is an Egyptian political author who was born in Cairo in 1931. He is one of the most important neo-marxist intellectual. He developed his political, economical and statistics studies in Paris. In 1957 he presented his thesis, supervised by Franç ...
• ATTAC
  The International ATTAC Movement was created at an international meeting in Paris, on December 11-12, 1998. The December 1998 meeting permitted the definition of three major objectives: 1. Launching of the international ATTAC movement - “ international mov ...
• Austrian EU-Platform of Non-Governmental Development Organisations
  The Austrian EU-platform of non-governmental development is a democratic and pluralistic association of organisations active in development cooperation, humanitarian aid as well as development education and awareness raising. The Austrian Platform represen ...
• Chomsky, Noam
  Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguist ...
• Delors, Jacques
  Known as the architect of the Single European Act, the first modification of the Treaty of Rome, and of the ambitious reform of funding for the European Community, the Hon. Jacques Delors is one of the most influential politicians in the formation of the E ...
• Development Alternatives With Women For a New Era
  DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN works globally and region ...
• Dupas, Gilberto
  Gilberto Dupas is the president of the Instituto de Estudios Económicos e Internacionales.
• Economic Policy Institute/Global Policy Network
  EPI is a think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about the strategies to achieve a prosperous, fair and sustainable economy. It stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards for working people, and make its findings accessi ...
• EURALAT
  Euralat is a strategic reflection, exchange and political action space promote by civil society organizations networks and research centers which seeks to strengthen and renew the association, cooperation and exchange relations between Europe and Latin Ame ...
• France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
  Danielle Mitterrand's foundation takes action on the following issues: water access and recognition as a common good, education, social responsibility on economy and democratic practices.
• Global Policy Network
  The Global Policy Network (GPN) consists of policy and research institutions connected to the world's trade union movements. GPN's work reflects a concern with the economic, social, and political conditions of working people in both developing and develope ...
• Henderson, Hazel
  Hazel Henderson was born in 1933 in Bristol, England. She is a futurist and evolutionary economist. She has been in good part concerned with finding the unexplored areas in standard economics and the "blind spots" of conventional economists. Most of her wo ...
• Instituto Brasileño de Análisis Sociales y Económicos
  The Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (IBASE) was founded in 1981. It has the status of a federal nonprofit charitable organization, with no links to any religious institution or political party. Its mission is to build democracy by fight ...
• International Forum on Globalization
  The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization. IFG was fo ...
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in 58 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war. To this end, IPPNW seeks to prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conf ...
• New Economics Foundation
  The New Economics Foundation is the radical think tank. It is unique in bringing together the ideas, people, resources and influence to challenge business-as-usual. We create practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic ch ...
• New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
  New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labour, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty a ...
• Sen, Amartya
  The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998.
• Solidar
  Solidar was formally set up in Germany in 1951 with the name International Workers Aid, it was renamed Solidar in 1995 and moved to Brussels. It is an international alliance of social and economic justice NGO's working in development and humanitarian aid, ...
• Stiglitz, Joseph
  Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. His book Globalization ...
• Stockholm Initiative
  Public social protection is crucial to the well-being of individuals and families and to economy and society as a whole. Now, however, social security is alleged to be a major cause of the current unsatisfactory economic performance in many countries. The ...
• World Economy, Ecology & Development
  WEED is an independent non-governmental organisation and it was founded in 1990. Their purpose is more awareness of the causes of global poverty and environmental problems. WEED involved in national and international networks, and organizations and initiat ...
• Yunus, Muhammad
  Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of ...

Meetings

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• 2006 Spring Meetings International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group
  Each Spring, the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee and the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee hold meetings to discuss progress on the work of the Fund and Bank. Plenary sessions of the IMF. The subjects treated in this meeting w ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 1st
  The CIVICUS World Assembly is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world. The first CIVICUS World Assembly was held in Mexico City in 1995. Through plenary spee ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 2nd
  In 1997, the CIVICUS World Assembly moved to Budapest, Hungary, attracting more than 500 people from 76 countries and six continents. Participants reviewed CIVICUS’ activities and immersed themselves in issues around visibility, resource mobilisation and ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 3rd
  The following CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Manila in 1999, with the theme “Towards a New Civil Society: The Changing Roles of Civil Society Organisations, Business and Government”. Over 600 delegates from all sectors of society discussed the varied ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 4th
  In 2001, shortly after the “anti-globalisation” protests in Seattle, Genoa and Quebec City, the 4th CIVICUS World Assembly. This brought together over 730 people from 87 countries to reflect on “putting people at the centre,” and “the role of voluntary ac ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 5th
  The 5th CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Gaborone, Botswana at the end of March 2004, introducing the theme ‘Acting Together for a Just World’. Over 700 delegates from 105 countries gathered to discuss the issues of civic, economic, social and politic ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 6th
  Over 800 delegates from over 100 countries came to Glasgow to discuss the overarching theme "Acting Together for a Just World", with four sub-themes of political, social, economic and civic justice. 2006 marked the beginning of our new approach to the CIVI ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 7th
  The 2007 CIVICUS World Assembly, which was the second of the Glasgow series, was held from 23-27 May, 2007. Some 745 delegates attended from over 119 countries around the world. This was a definite increase from the number of countries recorded at the 2006 ...
• World Social Forum 2001
  The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to ...
• World Social Forum 2002
  The second edition of the World Social Forum exceeded many respects expectations both by the number of attendees for the plurality of discussions and the large number of initiatives to implement alternatives to neoliberal globalization model imposed today ...
• World Social Forum 2004
  In 2004, for the very first time the World Social forum took place outside Brazil. The decision was taken by the International Council as part of the process of promoting the WSF actual internationalization. The WSF 2004 counted on the presence of 74.126 ...
• World Social Forum 2005
  In 2005 the world edition of WSF came back to Porto Alegre. It was formed a Brazilian Organizing Committee comprised by 23 organizations, subdivided into eight open WGs (Work Groups). The new methodology approved by the International Council in April 2004 ...
• World Social Forum 2006
  The WSF 6th edition was decentralized. It was held in different places around the world : Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and Karachi (Pakistan). The Bamako event took place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas took place from January 2 ...
• World Social Forum 2007
  The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...

Documents

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• A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All
  The Report of the World Commission is a positive but critical message for changing the current path of globalization. It says that the potentials of globalization, in terms of growing connectivity and productive capacity, are immense. However, current syst ...
• Currency Transaction Tax, The. A bold idea for financing development
  Global problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such innovative idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions, using the money raised to finance development projects for the global public good.
• Economía de guerra
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza article, published in El País. He analizes the international system and its economic framework.
• Globalisation and Its Discontents
  Review of this powerful, unsettling book which gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touc ...
• La Argentina en el túnel del tiempo
  Politic practices, economy and Argentina's present situation from the point of view of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
• Logic of Globalisation: Tensions and Governability
  After two decades of implementation of deep economic reforms such as the opening of the economy and the economic integration within a "global economy", a significant group of nations - specially those at the periphery of capitalism - has shown poor per cap ...
• New capitalism?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• New Partnership for Africa's Development
  The new Partnership for Africa's Development is a call for a new relationship of partnership between Africa and the international community, especially the highly industrialised countries, to overcome the development chasm that has widened over centuries o ...
• Nou capitalisme?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• Reinventing UNCTAD
  The paper highlights the role and influence of UNCTAD in global economy governance and stresses its continuing relevance and the importance of revitalizing UNCTAD's work so as to bring it once again to the forefront of multilateral efforts to deal with the ...
• Some Issues and Priorities in Building Democratic Global Governance and Institutions
  The world is getting more and more "globalised". The integration is taking place economically, as more countries are getting more "integrated" in the world economy through finance, investment and trade. Culturally, global integration is also taking place t ...
• Towards a new International Financial Architecture
  Statement submitted by the European Network on Finance and Development, presenting some proposals to disminish the impact of the financial crises.
• Un nouveau capitalisme?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
• ¿Nuevo capitalismo?
  Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.

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