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Posted by Natalia Gunther on 31 May 2011
Desarrollo, Gobernabilidad, Innovación – Hacia un Nuevo Panorama en la Cooperación al Desarrollo Internacional Mayo del 2011. SINTESIS - Vivimos un momento de tremenda innovación. Aparentemente basada en la rápida reordenación mundial actual a la vez con los múltiples efectos de la así llamada crisis económica de los sistemas capitalistas. Estas olas de innovación llegan a cuestionar también la relativa len...
Posted by Natalia Gunther on 12 November 2010
‘Nuevos caminos para la gobernabilidad en el Desarrollo Internacional post crisis: La innovación empresarial-social, y sus implicaciones para la Cooperación al Desarrollo.’ Sinopsis El mundo vive al momento una innovación social-empresarial enorme que nos está llevando a niveles colectivos de conciencia nuevos. Esa innovación tiene implicaciones cruciales tanto para una nueva generación entera de emprendedores sociales, como par...
Posted by Natalia Gunther on 22 March 2010
Gunther, Natalia (March 2010) ‘Do you believe in Social Justice or in the Social Entrepreneur, Part II’, Paper on the new relevance of the Social Entrepreneur in times of fundamental socio-economic change. With many thanks to my good friend Noeline Clayfield for her great help! Published at http://www.ledna.org/en/blog Whereas a last article I published as an introductory draft discussion paper in October 2009 argued the currently new emerging notions on Social Entrepren...
Posted by Natalia Gunther on 07 October 2009
Outline working paper, http://www.ifrtd.org/new/index.htm Gunther, Natalia ‘Do you believe in Social Justice or in the Social Entrepreneur?'.Outline for working paper, London October 2009. The current crisis will force us to rethink not only the architecture of International Economic Co-operation and Aid Policy, more than that it forces us to generally rethink Consumerism. Consumerism in the wider sense of consuming goods and services, those basic ones y...
Posted by Natalia Gunther on 18 June 2009
http://www.einpresswire.com/article/34424-the-big-turbulence-some-implications-for-aid-policy-and-its-demand-for-good-governance As often the best innovations tend to be developed in times of turbulence, maybe the current one has the potential to lead to new and original reflections on concurrent aid policy approaches of the most visible donor communities. The presently high level of uncertainty, multiple waves of stagnation and increasing global mistrust and exchange barriers mirror to ...