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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Jamila Labidi, responsable du programme Initiative Dialogue, a participé au Forum mondial de la Démocratie au Conseil de l’Europe à Strasbourg, sur le thème «Démocratie à l’épreuve : entre modèles anciens et réalités nouvelles».
Pacte Civique: (Photo: Web graphic)Un peu plus d’un an après son lancement, le Pacte civique a réussi à mobiliser plus de 150 organisations et 3000 adhérents. Chaque adhérent, personne ou organisation, était invité au cours des derniers mois à se poser la question de la profondeur de son engagement et à s’interroger sur la mise en œuvre d’une action concrète répondant au mieux à l’ambition du pacte.
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