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Japan’s Fureai Kippu Time-banking in Elderly Care: Origins, Development, Challenges and Impact
by Mayumi Hayashi. Japan’s Fureai Kippu (‘Ticket for a Caring Relationship’) is targeted at providing care for older people through exchanges of time credits. This has attracted increasing attention as a potential contribution to the ‘Big Society’ with an ageing population. However, there is little empirical research on this system. This article, using historical analysis and empirical evidence, seeks to address these gaps by examining the origins of Fureai Kippu, its early expansion, post-2000 slowdown and responses.
Key Indicators of Time Bank Participation: Using Transaction Data for Evaluation
May 29, 2012
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Ed Collum. This paper presents some key and advanced statistical indicators of time bank participation, intended to encourage coordinators and scholars to study these networks.
Time Banking in Social Housing
May 29, 2012
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Ruth Naughton-Doe. A social enterprise Spice has pioneered a new method of time banking that works with public services in an innovative way. This article briefly examines current time banking practices in the UK to set the scene for a discussion of Spice’s approach when applied in Social Housing.
Time is of the Essence: The Challenges and Achievements of a Swedish Time Banking Initiative
May 29, 2012
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This study focuses on the only existing time banking initiative in Sweden – TidsNätverket i Bergsjön (TNB). It explores the organization’s: 1) challenges, 2) achievements with regard to empowering its participants and creating social capital, as well as 3) if these can be attributed to TNB’s use of time banking. The semi-structured interviews and studies […]
Josh Ryan-Collins, Lucie Stephens and Anna Coote (2008) The New Wealth Of Time: How Time Banking Helps People Build Public Services
May 29, 2012
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Katharine Devitt Volume 13(2009) C95-97 IJCCRvol13(2009)pp95-97RevDevitt
Change Takes Time: Exploring Structural and Developmental Issues of Time Banking
May 29, 2012
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This paper draws out key conclusions from a recent research project into a voluntary sector time bank in the Welsh Valleys. The aim of the research was to explore the structure and organisational issues of time banks in relation to the development of co-production. Such an analysis attempts to make clear how time bank development […]
Time for Each Other: Working Towards a Complementary Currency Model to Serve the Anti-Poverty Policies of the Municipality of Landgraaf, the Netherlands
May 29, 2012
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In 2007, the Dutch municipality of Landgraaf requested an investigation into whether a community currency could support its anti-poverty policies. The literature research assembled empirical data on scrip, LETS and Time Banks. Their effects were evaluated against a set of specific goals: poverty relief, provision of care, social integration and return of long-term unemployed to […]
August 16, 2012
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