Caux Initiatives for Business (CIB) encourages business leaders, young professionals, NGO representatives, trade unionists, experts and decision makers to work together to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of values - in personal conduct and in economic life.
From poor banking to banking for the poor
Bank manager Jeyes Parthiban from South India argues that the banks can do much more with microfinance to help the poor lift themselves out of poverty.
View a short film about him, ‘Banking for Change’ by Pilgrim Films.
Human development: a necessary next stage in banking
Robert Dellner, a former Managing Director and global unit head in a merchant bank and now an organisational and cultural development specialist, calls for a new culture in banking that encourages the human development of bank staff. More..
Bernard Lietaer, author 
of The Future of Money (translated in 18 languages), is an international expert in the design and implementation of currency systems. He has studied and worked in the field of money for more than 30 years in an unusually broad range of capacities including as a Central Banker, a fund manager, a university professor, and a consultant to governments in numerous countries, multinational corporations, and community organizations. Watch on YouTube More..
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael Smith, head of business programmes at Initiatives of Change UK, reviews Michael Sandel's book in Financial World magazine. Read review>>
Lessons from the banking crisis: towards an ethical capitalism that delivers the common good. .
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Whoops! by John Lanchester, Penguin Books
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Announcing the TIGE 2013 conference, 13 to 19 July, in Caux, Switzerland
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In 2013, the focus will be on the core values needed to underpin human dignity and work towards a sustainable world, including practical solutions for action at both corporate and grassroots levels.
The ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ (TIGE) conferences, engage business people and decision-influencers in ‘honest conversations’ on the issues of globalization and the human face of economics. TIGE further aims to equip people with practical tools, grounded in a moral and ethical framework, for use in their places of work. TIGE’s mission is to ‘strengthen the motivations of care and moral commitment in economic life and thinking, in order to create jobs, correct economic and environmental imbalances and tackle the root causes of poverty.’
7 - 10 November 2013
'Economic growth – possibilities and challenges in making it sustainable, stable, balanced and humane' is the theme of the next conference of Caux Initiatives for Business (CIB), a programme of Initiatives of Change (IofC). Looking to the future with optimism, this fifth International Biennial Conference jointly hosted by IofC India and IofC Japan, seeks to continue on the theme initiated in 2011. The venue will be Asia Plateau, Panchgani from November 7 to 10, 2013.
The following sub-themes for the sessions are proposed:
