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Javier Salaberría, former CICOPA President has passed away
July 28, 2014 14:06Javier Salaberría, CICOPA President from 2005 until 2011, sadly passed away on Saturday 26th August and we received this news with great sorrow. Javier will remain a fundamental figure in the memories of all those who worked alongside him, as well as in the history of CICOPA and the worker cooperative movement. - News /... ...
Activists and Extractive Industries: An Alliance Against Social Development?
July 24, 2014 21:00This paper argues that activists and corporations in extractive industries depend on each other for power. This might seem to be a positive outcome for social development. However, activists do not always have a positive impact on social development. In fact, relying too much on activist interventions creates a risk of government and public complacency,... ...
Paving a national avenue on top of a complex network of trails: Contentions around mineral extraction in Ecuador
July 24, 2014 21:00Since his election in 2007, Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa has embarked on a post-neoliberal development strategy based on mineral extraction. The main justification of the government for promoting mineral extraction is that it will serve the ‘national interest’ and provide the resources to finance social policy. Although mineral wealth, if properly managed, can contribute to... ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Oil in the Niger Delta: Solution or Part of the Problem?
July 24, 2014 21:00Much recent development thinking has considered the ability of the private sector to play a developmental role in areas lacking a state presence. This think piece casts doubt onto this perspective by assessing the obstacles that the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) has faced in enacting CSR policies in the Niger Delta. It suggests that... ...
Extractive industries, power struggles and the battle of ideas
July 24, 2014 21:00Over the past decade, there has been rapid growth and expansion of the extractive industries the Amazon, accompanied by a rise in social mobilization and conflicts. This think piece scrutinizes the discourses that have been used, and are still being used, to legitimize powerful actors’ interventions in the extractive industries and local social development in... ...
Sign up for the International Diploma of cooperatives and organizations of social economy and solidarity management
July 24, 2014 14:31The Andalusian School of Social Economy has opened the registrations for the International Diploma of cooperatives and organizations of Social and Solidarity Economy management until August 29, 2014. This is particularly aimed at cooperative managers in Latin America. The program will be developed in Andalusia (Spain) from 21 September to 9 October 2014. It is... ...
Pioneer+TO Social Enterprise Business Plan Contest to Award $7,500
July 23, 2014 17:42
Pioneer+TO, a local grant program designed to help emerging social entrepreneurs develop a strong business plan, test their model and grow their impact, is now accepting applications for a $7,500 grant. Theme: Practitioner StrengtheningUnited by the mountain range: worker cooperative promotion in Chile
July 23, 2014 12:18Chile used to be one of the most important areas of development for worker cooperatives, exceeding three thousand companies. During the brutal repression of the dictatorship and decades of neoliberalism, these companies had virtually been destroyed. The worker cooperative movement in the Americas is now taking the first steps to support cooperatives in this country,... ...
Jobs: Fighting for the Future in a Crisis-Ridden Present
July 23, 2014 9:33
5 Reasons It’s Time for the 4-Day Work Week By Lynn Stuart Parramore SolidarityEconomy.net via alternet July 21, 2014 | Psst: Working less is the key to success. Want to make employees happier and more productive? Give them a four-day work week. The concept was introduced in the 1950s by American labor union leader Walter... ...Corporate Governance & Fiduciary Fundamentals and Practices
July 23, 2014 2:28The post Corporate Governance & Fiduciary Fundamentals and Practices appeared first on ADFIAP.
The Executive Trainers Seminar-Workshop
July 23, 2014 2:20The post The Executive Trainers Seminar-Workshop appeared first on ADFIAP.
ISMAIL BIN IBRAHIM
July 23, 2014 1:47
ISMAIL BIN IBRAHIM, Chief Executive, Iskandar Regional Development Authority. MUAR-born DATUK ISMAIL BIN IBRAHIM received his early education at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar and went on to study town planning at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is registered with the Board of Town Planners Malaysia and started his career in the civil... ...Exim Bank India signs agreement with other BRICS member-development banks
July 23, 2014 0:52
The Chairman and Managing Director of Exim Bank of India, Mr. Yaduvendra Mathur, signed a multilateral financial cooperation agreement for financing innovation with the Chairmen/Presidents of other member- development banks of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations in the presence of Heads of States/Governments of the BRICS countries on Tuesday, July 15,... ...KDB’s advanced policy finance a boon to SMEs
July 23, 2014 0:47
Korean Development Bank CEO Mr. Hong Ky-ttack has vowed to strengthen its support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with advance policy financing. Mr. Ky-ttack said during a Business Leaders Forum in Seoul that SMEs should be the main players of the government’s creativity-based economic paradigm. He added that KDB will lead in the advanced... ...IFCL to work for KfW to develop risk hedging tool
July 23, 2014 0:46
Ottawa, Canada-based International Financial Consulting Ltd. (IFCL) is currently developing a risk hedging instrument for the German development bank, KfW, for its own balance sheet needs. In particular, IFCL is advising KfW on the establishment of a new insurance vehicle to help it and other European development finance institutions (DFIs) manage country and sector limits.... ...