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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age

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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age

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Trivia About Going Local: Progressives, on the other hand, have supported state controls as an alternative, forgetting that state-managed economies are not only inefficient, but also tend to be as exploitational as multinational business. Shuman proposes a third, community-centered alternative. At a minimum, Shuman believes that local economies should plan ways to meet its own basic economic needs. The goal would be to develop policies whereby local communities free themselves of dependency on global markets for much of the goods needed by them.

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For Shuman, this might also be cost-effective. He envisions a sustainable economy that capitalizes on the resources and assets inherent at the local level. A needs-driven economy is one in which the local community is able to produce for its own basic needs, and import the rest without dependency for human survival. Shuman identifies organized attempts at reclaiming economic self-sufficiency.

Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age by Michael H. Shuman

These include credit unions, cooperatives, community land trusts, municipally-owned utilities, worker-owned firms, community development firms, and local shareowner firms—each with the purpose of maintaining local control. Other world examples are also cited.

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Public policy has not always been helpful in supporting local economies. The first one makes banks disclose to whom they have been making homeowner loans.


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More than that, they have been stimuli for reinvestment in local communities, and have helped to insure that minority neighborhoods have been justly served by lending institutions. Internationally, the Gremeen Bank in Bangladesh has given loans to an estimated two million women to start jobs at the local level.