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Financial Crisis Resources
Crisis Watch Bibliography
This annotated bibliography, created by the Centre for Social Protection and the UN GIVAS team, contains key documents reporting the human level impact of the crises.
New blog from nef (the new economics foundation), about the Triple Crunch. Financial meltdown, soaring food and energy bills, oil depletion, accelerating climate change. The global economy faces a ‘triple crunch' which could develop into a perfect storm to rival or surpass the Great Depression. Current responses simple aren't getting to the root of the problem. As the world slips further into financial and environmental freefall, this blog builds on over 20 years of new economics thinking and practice to set out solutions to the interlinked challenges we face.
Global Pulse is a United Nations initiative to close the information gap between the onset of a global crisis and the availability of actionable information to protect vulnerable populations. Global Pulse will harness the analytical resources and expertise of the UN and its partners to provide high quality, actionable information for the global community. It will design and manage a sustainable open source technology platform to bring together tools, people and information for collective decision making. It will develop, scale, and replicate a model for building sustainable innovation in crisis resilience through a network of regional PULSE Labs.
Oxfam has undertaken a combination of research and lobbying to: Understand and highlight the crisis' impacts on development and people living in poverty; Learn the lessons of dealing with a global shock; Influence decision-makers at national and global levels to respond appropriately to this crisis and minimise future vulnerabilities
The world is experiencing three simultaneous crises in finance, development, and the environment. A number of economists are questioning the mainstream narratives and analyses of these crises. Some of us have joined to create Triple Crisis blog to contribute to a more open and global dialogue around these three crises: about how they interact, and how they can collectively be solved.he aim of this blog is to provide additional exposure for the existing work of a network of economists who have been working on these three integrative crises. But more importantly, the blog itself will aim to generate a dialogue in a way that has an exponential effect in terms of influencing policy-makers and the broader public. A project of GDAE, Economic Research Foundation, and the Heinrich Boell Foundation
VoxEU.org is partnering with the UK government to collect the views of economists from around the world on what we should do to fix the global economy. The analysis and proposals that appear on Vox's "Global Crisis Debate" page will feed directly into the UK's preparation for the summit of world leaders in London in April. This debate will be featured on the UK government's own London Summit web site.
- Crisis Watch Past Events
Complex Crises Workshop 2010
Dates: 9 Mar 2010 - 10 March 2010Crisis Watch convened a two-day workshop to critically evaluate the state of knowledge of the impacts of recent economic shocks on livelihoods and wellbeing across the world. Outputs from the event, including presentations, workshop reports and short films can be found here.