In Zambia, foreign investors complicate “economy of life”
To witness and attempt to understand contrasting narratives of foreign investment-linked development and socio-economic injustice, participants of the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School) visited a mining company on 22 August. The GEM School 2017 was promoted by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and World Communion […]
GEM school integrates theology and economics
With the aim of building competency in economics within churches, the second Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School) was held from 21 August – 1 September in Lusaka, Zambia. Fifteen participants from different churches worldwide came together at the Kingsley Mweenda Centre of the Council of Churches […]
GEM school ends with hope for a better tomorrow
“As a professor of economics and economic ethics with a theological background, and as dean of the GEM school, I can say that pluralistic economics—getting new prominence as an international student initiative—is an attempt to challenge neo-liberal monolithic economics. It is time for new thinking about economics,” stated Prof. Martin Büscher, first chair for economics […]
A just financial and economic architecture is possible, students find
The globalization of the world economy has not been an even process, and in many ways governance for the protection of capital has overtaken governance for the protection of human well-being. A recent Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM) for an Economy of Life addressed this very asymmetry. Held in Hong Kong from […]
São Paulo Statement presented to Latin American governments
Ecumenical organizations are engaged in a series of meetings with Latin American governments focused on a document proposing an alternate vision for the global financial system. Audiences with senior officials in Argentina, Bolivia and Peru have already been held. The document known as the São Paulo Statement: International Financial Transformation for the Economy of Life […]