“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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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.

Election and Economic Depression by Martin Manurung One month prior to the legislative election in Indonesia, the world is officially declared to be in an economic recession. Global economic growth for 2009 which was predicted to be only 0.5 percent, in just 2 months was corrected by the Intenational Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World
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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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Here you find updated list of weblinks to trade union statements, press releases and other written crontributions published following the deepening of the financial crisis in September 2008. http://www.tuac.org/en/public/e-docs/00/00/03/CF/document_doc.phtml

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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