A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Financing the global sharing economy – executive summary
Report / 1st October 2012This executive summary of a report by Share The World’s Resources outlines how governments could mobilise over $2.8 trillion to finance the global sharing economy as an immediate priority for governments, which it argues can only happen with a huge groundswell of public pressure for sharing and justice.
Financing the global sharing economy, part one: the sharing economy
Report / 1st October 2012Part 1 of the report Financing the Global Sharing Economy demonstrates how systems that facilitate ‘economic sharing’ are increasingly being eroded by policies that widen inequalities and leave families in a state of poverty or destitution across the world. The result is a silent humanitarian emergency that should be treated as a foremost priority by the international community.
Financing the global sharing economy, part two: the global emergency
Report / 1st October 2012Part 2 of the report Financing the Global Sharing Economy describes in more detail a silent humanitarian emergency that governments should prioritise above all other international concerns: millions of people across the world who face extreme deprivation and die needlessly each day as a consequence of extreme poverty, natural disasters or other preventable causes.
Financing the global sharing economy, part three: the ten policy recommendations
Report / 1st October 2012Part 3 of the report ‘Financing the Global Sharing Economy’ introduces the 10 policies that could enable the international community to mobilise more than $2.8 trillion within a short number of years, money that governments should use to strengthen and scale up the sharing economy both nationally and globally.
Financing the global sharing economy, part three (1): taxing financial speculation
Report / 1st October 2012This section of the report Financing the Global Sharing Economy demonstrates how governments could raise as much as $650bn globally through a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to tackle poverty, reverse austerity measures and address climate change.