The People-Centered Development Forum Seeking a just, inclusive, and sustainable world that works for all.
Sustainability requires fundamentally redefining the policy framework for commerce.
Outlines basic principles for such a redefinition. While protecting inefficient domestic monopolies is generally inefficient and should be avoided, protecting a domestic market from predatory pricing by those who fail to include full production, social and environmental costs in pricing is essential to true economic efficiency and should be encouraged. Through grassroots initiatives, people the world over are struggling to create local economies based on principles of participation, self-reliance, equity, and sustainability. The World Bank and other official agencies should either find ways to support them or get out of their way. The unsustainability of modern life is grounded in a materialistic, reductionistic scientific worldview that is at odds with reality.