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2012 Special Issue: Thirty Years of Community and Complementary Currencies
Bringing together 17 new research papers from around the world, this special issue celebrates thirty years of community and complementary currencies, and assesses their impacts, potential and challenges. Edited by Jerome Blanc. View the papers individually, using the menu above, or download the whole issue here. IJCCR 2012 Vol 16 Special Issue Complete Editorial Thirty […]
Local Exchange Trading Systems in Central European post-Communist Countries
July 8, 2012
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Jelínek P., Szalay Zs. and Konečný A: This paper gives information about Local Exchange Trade Systems in the region of former Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, discussing possible reasons for variations in CC experience.
2011 Special Issue: Complementary Currencies: State of the Art
July 1, 2012
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IJCCR 15 (2011) Special Issue (Section D) Edited by Noel Longhurst and Gill Seyfang Comprising 15 papers from researchers and academics at the cutting edge of complementary currency development, this special issue represents a powerful consolidation of the state of the art in this field. View the papers individually, using the menu above, or download […]
L’Accorderie and Le Jardin Universel (JEU) in Quebec
May 29, 2012
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This paper compares two of the most successful community currency systems in the province of Quebec, Canada: l’Accorderie and Le Jardin d’Echange Universel (JEU). The paper compares their founding principles and organisational structures, and their mechanisms and mediums of exchange. While the former is quite well-institutionalised and attempts to operate professionally, ‘within the system’, the […]
Community Currency Progress in Latin America (Banco Palmas)
May 29, 2012
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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 […]
Complementary Currencies for Sustainable Local Economies in Central America
May 29, 2012
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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 […]
Alternative Exchange Systems in Contemporary Greece
May 29, 2012
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This paper is a brief report of several schemes that exist today, September 2010, in Greece and permit their members to perform transactions without any official currency. The report covers parallel currency schemes, exchange networks and several related initiatives that could be characterised as alternative exchange or non-mainstream modes of economic activity. Irene Sotiropoulou Volume […]
What Have Complementary Currencies in Japan Really Achieved?
May 29, 2012
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Japan has been regarded from abroad as one of the most developed countries in terms of CC systems, depicted by Kennedy and Lietaer (2004) as “the country in the world with the most systems in operation today, but also the nation with the greatest diversity of such experiments.” However, this paper argues that the lack […]
Complementary Currencies in Germany: The Regiogeld System
May 29, 2012
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In several places in Germany colourful slips of paper replace the Euro as a medium of exchange. These unofficial tenders German Regiogeld, a phenomenon which occurred around 2001 and spread rapidly all over Germany. It appears not only with different names but also in various forms. The article introduces this special complementary currency. It describes […]
July 9, 2012
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