A newnon-governmental organisation, with assistance from Development GAP Washington, D.C., has published some documents formerly kept secret by the Hungarian Ministry of Finance and the National Bank of hungary. These documents throw a new light on the origins of transition policies in Hungary.
Category Archives: Former issues
Proposal for green taxes
A new initiative to introduce ecological taxes adopdet by a European conference held in Athens in 1997 November. The document explains the arguments too.
GDP and te lack of eco-logic
The Sytem of National Accountas used by the UN to mesure the annual income of countries hardly takes into account any environmental factors and particularly the degradation of human and environmental capital the reuslt of the operation of capitalist markets.
The eco-trap and the abolition of the North
Most of the participants of the ecological debate pretend that the mere repetition of slogans like "sustainable development" will lead to a mor epresent future. To reach a more liveliable ecological condition, however, the global society needs to abolish its inequalities. First of all the North must be prevented to dominate the agricultural territories of the South.
Alternative economic indicators
A number of initiatives have been made by leading economists and ecological movements to replace the outdated measurement of national incomes. Here are introductions to five of these indicators.