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.
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Newspapers are full of alarming news. Like a slow, subterranean fire, the 14-months-old credit crisis continues its rampage, this time bringing down major U.S. banks and insurance companies. By 15 September, four of them had lost over 80% of their value on Wall Street. The worst hit, a 158-year old institution, investment banker Lehman Brothers, was reduced to only 6.4% of its pre-crisis market value and did not even succeed in selling itself out, in spite of the fact that one of its core businesses was precisely to broker mergers and acquisitions!
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Globalization is harsh to the poor, the uneducated, the unlucky. It tends to increase inequalities.
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Instead of possessing money, many in the world are possessed by money and become slaves to it.
No matter how hard we try not to make an issue out of it, money does matter
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“Money doesn’t grow on trees,” was Mother’s comment when I asked for some. I was born into a working class family, just before the Second World War, so we had a healthy attitude towards money; mainly because we had none.
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Have you ever been asked if you are a wealthy person? If today someone approaches you with this question, what will your answer be? And more important, what guideline will you use to arrive at your conclusion?
Sandra Crathern from Worthing tells how she made amends for money she had stolen
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Try Honesty, it works!
Sarla Kapadia insisted on collecting payment by cheque only for the flat she was trying to sell. “Impossible!” said some friends and relatives. Or was it?
Against the backdrop of the economic crisis in Greece, Italy and other EU economies, the conference entitled ‘Trust and integrity in the global economy’, 17-23 July 2012, will explore ways to help create a just and equitable global economy.
Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
by Dr Noel Purcell, Chair, Caux Round Table
Podcasts of the TIGE 2011 conference are available here. Please click on the links below to download.
Yahaya Ahmed at the Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy Conference
Date: Monday, 8 August 2011
Yahaya Ahmed discusses the development of a solar cooker that uses less resources
Sergio Gridel, Philip Koenig et Nicolas Reynaud sur la « Gouvernance de Communion: redécouvrir le management
Date: Friday, 5 August 2011
Témoignage de Sergio Gridel, Philip Koenig et Nicolas Reynaud sur la « Gouvernance de Communion:redécouvrir le management » lors de la rencontre Confiance et intégrité dans une économie mondialisée (TIGE). Avec introduction par Lavinia Sommaruga.
Göran Carstedt, chairman of The Natural Step International, speaking on “Creating a sustainable future – the leadership challenge of our time”
Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer on “Integral Economics: a new transcultural approach towards social and economic transformation”
Date: Saturday, 6 August 2011
Ronnie Lessem, from the UK, and Alexander Schieffer from Switzerland on “Integral Economics: a new transcultural approach towards social and economic transformation”
Sumio Takeichi on “Green Energy: future for a sustainable global economy”
Date: Sunday, 7 August 2011
Sumio Takeichi (Japan, Limited Partner of the Green Finance Corporation (GFC), during the “Trust and integrity in the global economy“ conference
Speech by Paul Moore at the opening of the ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’
Date: Thursday, 4 August 2011
Paul Moore, the former head of group regulatory risk at Halifax Bank of Scotland HBOS, internationally known as ‘the HBOS whistle-blower’; telling his personal story and the lessons learned for the future of the financial services sector and the global economy.
Diana de Vallescar habla sobre "Diaspora, identidad y el rol de las políticas de identidad"
Date: Saturday, 6 August 2011
Diana de Vallescar habla durante la conferencia "Aprender a vivir en un mundo multicultural" sobre "Diaspora, identidad y el rol de las políticas de identidad"
Caux Conferences - Report 2011
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Caux Conferences - Report 2009
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