“Responding to the Global Financial crisis: Can ASEAN get its act together?”, by: Christopher Ng “Lessons from Thailand for the States in Asia and South-East Asia in the contemporary economic crisis and prospecting for a sustainability of social democracy?”, by: Dr. Chokchai Suttawet “Direction and Ambivalence in the Local Governance Work of Akbayan”, by: Jude
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“Responding to a Systemic Crisis-Asian Democrats in Search of Policy and Practical Solutions: First Regular Conference on Social Democracy in Asia” May 20-23, 2009, Manila, Philippines The conference brought together members of political parties, pre-party formations and allied organizations and individuals to shape a common reading and response to the current global financial and economic
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MANILA, Philippines – Parliamentarians, trade unions, and leaders of social democratic-oriented political parties and organizations from various Asian countries have drawn up a seven-point agenda for their respective governments to address the current global economic crisis and to reconfigure their development model away from the failed neo-liberal paradigm to an equitable and sustainable path. In
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Another Trade Union source on the issue: Financial Crisis Unions’ Watch, a webpage hosted by the ITUC that presents the reactions of trade unions on the global economic and financial crisis: http://www.ituc-csi.org/financialcrisis.

Another comprehensive access to information on the financial crisis can be accessed under: http://www.rethinkingfinance.org/  : The following institutions are behind this new website: Bretton Woods Project, Casino Crash, Debtonation, Eurodad, Focus on the Global South, Choike.org The website intends to: “forward alternative ideas and analyses, provides information about and comments on latest events, and gives
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On March 4th and 5th 2009 about 20 representatives of social democratic parties, pre-parties and fraternal organisations from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Europe met in Jakarta/Indonesia to discuss the global financial and economic crisis on Southeast Asia to consider the possible setting up of a “Network of Social Democratic Parties and Movements in
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One part of the first network meeting in Jakarta was reserved to discuss the current financial crisis from a social democratic perspective.   The main aspects of the discussion have been summed up in a short outcome document on the financial-crisis. Prof. Dr. h. c. Christa Randzio-Plath, Lawyer and advisor of the European Commission as
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Joel Rocamora writes about the financial crisis in his recent article: “Actually Existing Capitalism – Its Crisis and the Left”

In the series of Dialogue on Globalization the following contributions on the financial crisis have been published Christopher Rude asked already in November 2008: “The global financial crisis : what needs to be done?” and Stephanie Hell reported in December 2008 about “The Response of the United Nations to the Global Financial Crisis”   In
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