Impact Report No. 1: Global Fund for Women.
For 16 years, the Global Fund for Women has invested in human rights organizations that improve women’s economic status and wellbeing. Economic justice and opportunity for women were always critical to this work. In October 1998, the Global Fund launched a three-year Economic Opportunity Initiative to highlight
the need to invest in women’s efforts to gain economic independence.This report outlines key lessons learned from the initiative and is more...
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Advertising agencies are playing an important role in Glocalization. The burger advertisements are classic examples of the current trend in Indian branding and advertising industry - “think globally, act locally”. Industry watchers call it glocalization - a saleable mix of the global and the local, which represents human capacity to bridge scales from the local to global and vice versa.
Zubin Driver, director of the TV channel CNBC, explained that Glocalization is a product of globalizati more...
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By Joel Kotkin*
15 May 2008: Ever since his election in 2005, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been portrayed as a politician with a future that possibly included the governorship. As soon as he entered office, he launched an impressive succession of ‘bold’ initiatives — among them, to make the Los Angeles Police Department a 10,000-cop force, to ‘green’ the port of Los Angeles, to improve the academic scores of some of LA Unified's worst-performing schools. Until the re more...
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By Tokihiro Nakamura, Mayor of Matsuyama
10 May 2008: The tourism hotspot of Matsuyama in southern Japan has forged a reputation as an early adopter of optical capabilities in local industry and town planning, earning it the designation IT Business Model District by the central government.
Located in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, Matsuyama City is the nucleus municipality in the prefecture with a population of some 513,000. The metropolitan area is highly accessible as it takes more...
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ShoreCap Exchange (“Exchange” or “SCE”), a non-profit sponsored by ShoreBank Corporation helps build stronger local small business banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) that serve the poor in developing rural and urban economies, primarily in Africa, Asia and in non-EU Eastern European countries.
Small businesses account for more than half of all economic activities in developing economies and are a major source of non-farm income and employment. The continued growth of s more...
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Published by the German Bishops' Conference Research Group on the Universal Tasks of the Church:
The extent of the poverty in many developing and transformation countries does not reduce the need of people who are unemployed in the industrialised countries, for instance here in Germany, who only find precarious employment, or who must survive as poor people in a rich country. One thing should however not be set off against the other. At the same time, there is a narrowing of the viewpoint in more...
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In this Technical Paper, the author argues that fiscal policy is more effective than monetary policy, whether the exchange rate is fixed or flexible.
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