Community currencies have been put forward as a grassroots tool to promote social inclusion through community self-help and active citizenship. 'Time banks' are a new form of community currency in the UK which are receiving government support. Time credits are earned for each hour of voluntary...

The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the...