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  • 6 Jan 2009
    Who Owns Fairtrade? A debate on who benefits, influences and controls Fairtrade

    The idea of fair trade has become increasingly popular amongst consumers and some producers. But who does fair-trade really benefit? The producers, the consumers or the farmers?

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  • 12 Dec 2008
    Is more shopping really our salvation?

    The Bank of England reports that members of the public now owe £1.457 trillion, £1.219 trillion of which is secured on dwellings, the value of which con­tinues to diminish, says Giles Fraser. So is more shopping the answer?

  • 28 Nov 2008
    Development agencies challenge UK government on global finance

    As world leaders and finance ministers meet this weekend to discuss funding for poorer countries, two leading development agencies are calling for major reforms of the global financial system.

  • 26 Nov 2008
    Support for UK 'Green New Deal' growing, say activists

    As the scale of the global credit, climate and oil shocks becomes clearer, support for a radical 'Green New Deal' is growing, political economist Ann Pettifor and analyst Andrew Simms told a meeting in parliament last night.

  • 25 Nov 2008
    Fair finance agency becomes official Churches Together partner

    Oikocredit, the worldwide co-operative which challenges churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments, has become a 'body in association' with Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.

  • 17 Nov 2008
    Coming under liberating judgement

    The biblical theme of judgement confronts us with some tough issues, says Simon Barrow. But rightly understood it is about liberation not vindictiveness, and a reorientation which is economic as much as spiritual, political as much as religious.

  • 14 Nov 2008
    WCC says world needs a new international financial architecture

    As many "responsible for the current financial meltdown" meet "behind closed doors in Washington" to discuss the future of the global economy, the World Council of Churches has challenged the legitimacy of the "G20" group.

  • 21 Oct 2008
    Archbishop urges Christians and Muslims to create fairer lending

    The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has said greed is the root cause of the current economic crisis and he has called on Christians and Muslims to work together to decide upon a fairer system of borrowing and lending.

  • 21 Oct 2008
    Believable finance

    Ekklesia's briefing on faith and economy has been updated again to include the latest material appearing on the site about the global credit crunch.

  • 21 Oct 2008
    Neoliberal economics in retreat, says Christian gathering

    There is a "gradual retreat of neoliberalism" in the region, according to participants in a Latin America and Caribbean ecumenical Christian consultation to examine the links between poverty, wealth and ecology.