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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O Jornal Indian Express, o principal jornal na Índia, traz reportagem sobre o papel de Asia Plateau, o Centro de Iniciativas de Mudança na Índia, na batalha contra a corrupção.
El Indian Express, un importante periódico en la India, reporta sobre el papel que Asia Plateau, el centro de Iniciativas de Cambio en la India, está jugando en la lucha contra la corrupción.
The Indian Express, a major paper in India, reports on the role Asia Plateau, the Initiatives of Change centre in India, is playing in the battle against corruption.
La corrupción es una amenaza a la seguridad humana, especialmente en África, escribe Ann Njeri. Pero a pesar de su capacidad de penetración en todas partes, hay ejemplos de empresas que hacen negocios de una manera limpia y gracias a eso tienen éxito.
Initiatives et Changement a le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue à Yaoundé (Cameroun), du 7 au 11 mai 2012, d’une Conférence Panafricaine sur le thème : Gouvernance, Leadership et Corruption en Afrique: quelle espérance pour la jeunesse du continent?
Agora, no curso da crise financeira global, esse pode ser o momento para que empresários e líderes políticos que têm paixão pela integridade assumam o desafio de mudar em uma escala global o ambiente moral em que os negócios estão sendo conduzidos.
Changer 338 "afrique vers un nouveau leadership" - dossier afrique et corruption
Ahora, tras la crisis financiera mundial, este podría ser el momento para que líderes empresarios y políticos, que tengan una pasión por la integridad, acepten el reto de cambiar, en una escala mundial, el ambiente moral en el que se llevan a cabo los negocios.
Our analysis shows that $850 billion to $1 trillion a year of illicit money passes out of developing countries, through the shadow financial system, and into industrial countries. This is the most damaging economic condition hurting the global poor. G20 leaders need to refocus on changing the culture of opacity embodied in the global shadow financial system in order to curtail the flow of illicit money across borders. Several measures can achieve this end—automatic exchange of tax information, beneficial ownership, harmonizing predicate offenses, and country-by-country reporting.
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