The themes that will be discussed during the forum are: solidarity economy in Asia and East Asia, with case studies from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, and South Korea; trading differently with fair trade; governing differently with the Charter of Human Responsibilities; investing differently with socially responsible investment; financing differently with microfinance; producing differently with socially responsible entrepreneurship; developing and managing real-estate assets differently.
On the firm foundations of these new realities, the Forum plans to launch an Alliance for an Other Economy (ALOE) and to set up an Asian Forum Regional Council and a Bayanihan Banking Window (BBW) Stakeholders Council. BBW is a banking facility that addresses the basic liquidity problems of non-bank development finance institutions, i.e., temporary excess liquidity or temporary liquidity shortfall.
The Forum, in what is commonly acknowledged as the most important region in the world in the near future, proves that the global policies that have systematically led to the deterioration of the planet and of most of the world’s population are of the order of neither fate nor doom, that economics can be a tool for true human development. To be followed closely by one and all!
See, too, our previous article.
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