Hi Eli,<br><br>I wonder if you could present these to our blog?<br><br>see <a href="http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29.html">http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29.html</a><br><br>Michel<br><br><br><img src="http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29_files/stroke_5.png" style="position: absolute; left: 25px; top: 30px; width: 3px; height: 2px; z-index: auto; opacity: 0;"><img src="http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29_files/stroke_6.png" style="position: absolute; left: 1px; top: 30px; width: 24px; height: 2px; z-index: auto; opacity: 0;"><img src="http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29_files/stroke_7.png" style="position: absolute; left: -1px; top: 30px; width: 2px; height: 2px; z-index: auto; opacity: 0;"><br>
<p class="paragraph_style_5">Complementary Currencies
for Sustainable Local Economies in Central America<br></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_3">Erik Brenes <span class="style">D 32-38</span><br></p>
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<p class="paragraph_style_6">After more than a decade of
researching, implementing and supervising complementary currencies
projects in the region, the Social Trade Organisation Central America
(STRO-CA) has accumulated many lessons learnt and developed
complementary currency methods along with strategies to stimulate its
circulation, but most of all to create stable, diversified and resilient
local economies in the cities where projects are in research, execution
and/or supervision. This report introduces the STRO-CA approach to
complementary currency development, and reflects on ten years of
currency innovation and development in Central America.<br></p>
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<p class="paragraph_style_5">Community Currency Progress
in Latin America (Banco Palmas)<br></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_3">Christophe Place <span class="style">D 39-46</span><br></p>
<p class="paragraph_style_3"><br></p>
After losing its lawsuit
against a community bank issuing a community currency, the Central Bank
of Brazil has just started a cooperation agreement with the National
Secretary for Solidarity Economy of the Labour Ministry of Brazil to
support and develop the current 51 community banks and their own social
currency in order to reach about 300 by 2012, becoming an exemplary
model. This world premiere central bank support associated with one of
the highest amount of community currency systems of Latin America
brought Brazil as a significant site of experimentation in this field.
Furthermore, some daring innovations seem to confirm this position in a
long-term future unless this normative control of a centralized
institution decreases the creativity. Indeed, sustainable economic
orientation still needs creative tools, associated to an ethical vision,
to decrease material consumption dependence and increase
post-materialist values exchange: community currency transformation to
an effective grassroots innovation for sustainability, prosperity and
democracy seems to be necessary.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>� - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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