PCDForum Column #44, Release Date November 20, 1992
by David C. Korten
Evidence mounts almost daily that the global economy is systematically
impoverishing the majority of earth’s people and destroying its environment. Yet
official development agencies continue to issue endless calls for greater
commitment to the very prescriptions that are deepening the crisis, assuring us
that eventually they will provide […]
This document was drawn from the contributions of the participants of the "Southeast Asia Regional Consultation on a People's Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable Development: Towards UNCED and Beyond" and ratified at a plenary session on 2 December 1991 at SEARCA, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines.
PCDForum Column #30, Release Date March 1, 1992
by David C. Korten
My recent visit to South Africa revealed more starkly than any experience in
my thirty year development career the threat posed by international aid to
authentic development. The easing of international sanctions there is attracting
aid agencies like vultures to a fresh carcass including a recent visit […]
PCDForum Column #37, Release Date July 20, 1992
by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
The Earth Summit is over. The question remains. What has it accomplished? If
nothing else, it has given us each a media course in the environment. Even if we
didn’t read the lengthy reports, analyses and updates, the cartoons themselves
said volumes. Who can forget […]
A feature of the People-Centered Development Forum, Release Date March 15, 1992
by Michael Kinsley
All rights to this paper are retained by Michael Kinsley, director of the
Rocky Mountain Institute’s Economic Renewal Program, a self-help technique for
sustainable economic development. The Program’s materials and strategic-planning
process are adaptable by community residents to unique local conditions. Its
Economic Renewal workbooks and […]
PCDForum Column #29, Release Date March 1, 1992
by David C. Korten
In a recent internal memo, the World Bank’s Chief Economist, Lawrence
Summers, made a forthright proposal: "Just between you and me, shouldn’t
the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the
LDCs?" The memo was leaked to the press and within a few […]
PCDForum Column #41, Release Date July 20, 1992
by John Roughan
In the Solomon Islands many people think getting project
money is like magic. You write a proposal and, if fate
favors you, the money falls from the sky. Actually,
following three simple rules can greatly increase the prospect of a favorable funding response. More important, it
will result in sound […]
PCDForum Column #40 Release date July 20, 1992
by Paul Ekins and David C. Korten
The discussions of the UNCED Earth Summit in Rio
were interspersed with frequent references to a new
world order. Indeed it was easy to miss the underlying
issues of the debate without a guide to the three
competing new world order visions that shaped it.
First was the […]
PCDForum Column #36, Release Date July 20, 1992
by David C. Korten
I am among those who left the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro with a sense of
despair. The official debates were accurately described by a European journalist
as a feast of hypocrisy. The final documents evaded the real issues and avoided
setting serious targets. Stripped of […]
A feature of the People-Centered Development Forum, Release Date April 3, 1992
by David C. Korten and Paul Ekins
It is rare to open a serious daily newspaper or news weekly without being
faced with articles predicting dire economic consequences if the current
international negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
(GATT) fail to remove the world’s last […]