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80 relations: Abeille (local currency), Argentine argentino, Axarquía, Široké, Banco Palmas, Barter, Basque Country (autonomous community), BBC, BerkShares, Bernard Lietaer, Big-box store, Bitcoin, Bond of association, Bratislava, Bristol Pound, Caracas, Chiemgauer, Climate change, Clone town, Collaborative finance, Community currency, Community Exchange System, Complementary currency, Conder token, Crédito, Currency, Cyclos, Demurrage, Duif, Eco-Pesa, Economics, Emissions Reduction Currency System, Eusko, Exeter pound, Findhorn Ecovillage, Fiscal localism, Fureai kippu, Guelders, Hub Culture, Informal sector, Kelantanese dinar, Kolion, Le Temps, LECOP, Legal tender, Lewes Pound, List of community currencies in Canada, List of community currencies in the United States, Liverpool pound, Local currency, ..., Local exchange trading system, Local multiplier effect, Local purchasing, Medium of exchange, Mutual credit, Occitan (local currency), Ora (currency), Panal, Patacón (bond), Peak oil, Private currency, Saber (sectoral currency), Salt Spring dollar, Sarafu-Credit, Schumacher Center for a New Economics, Sectoral currency, Sharing economy, Stroud pound, Tencent QQ, The Future of Money, Time-based currency, Totnes pound, Transition town, Urstromtaler, Velocity of money, Ven (currency), Venti, Wörgl, WIR Bank, Zvolen. Expand index (30 more) »
Abeille (local currency)
Abeille is the name of a community currency started in 2010 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France.
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Argentine argentino
The Argentino was an Argentine currency equal to 5 pesos oro sellado.
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Axarquía
Axarquía is a comarca of Andalusia in southern Spain.
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Široké
Široké is a village and municipality in Prešov District in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.
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Banco Palmas
Banco Palmas is a Brazilian community bank founded in 1998 in Conjunto Palmeiras, a neighborhood of 32,000 inhabitants located in the suburbs of Fortaleza - Ceará, Brazil operating under the principle of the "Solidarity Socio-Economy." It is the first of currently 52 similarly structured community banks - also known as "community development banks" (CDBs) - throughout Brazil.
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Barter
In trade, barter is a system of exchange where participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.
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Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco; Pays Basque), officially the Basque Autonomous Community (Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, EAE; Comunidad Autónoma Vasca, CAV) is an autonomous community in northern Spain.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BerkShares
BerkShares is a local currency that circulates in The Berkshires region of Massachusetts.
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Bernard Lietaer
Bernard Lietaer (born 1942 in Lauwe, Belgium) is a civil engineer, economist, author and professor.
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Big-box store
A big-box store (also supercenter, superstore, or megastore) is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores.
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin (₿) is the world's first cryptocurrency, a form of electronic cash.
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Bond of association
The (common) bond of association or common bond is the social connection among the members of credit unions and co-operative banks.
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Bratislava
Bratislava (Preßburg or Pressburg, Pozsony) is the capital of Slovakia.
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Bristol Pound
The Bristol Pound (£B) is a form of local complementary currency, or community currency launched in Bristol, UK on 19 September 2012.
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Caracas
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and centre of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela.
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Chiemgauer
Chiemgauer is the name of a regional local currency started in 2003 in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Clone town
Clone town is a global term for a town where the High Street or other major shopping areas are significantly dominated by chain stores.
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Collaborative finance
Collaborative finance is a category of financial transaction that occurs directly between individuals without the intermediation of a traditional financial institution.
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Community currency
A community currency is a type of complementary currency that is used by groups with a common bond, like members of a locality, or association, and designed to meet their needs.
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Community Exchange System
The Community Exchange System (CES) is an Internet-based trading network which allows participants to buy and sell goods and services without using a national currency.
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Complementary currency
A complementary currency is a currency or medium of exchange which is not a national currency, but which is thought of as supplementing or complementing national currencies.
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Conder token
Conder Tokens, also known as 18th Century Provincial Tokens, are a form of privately minted token coinage struck and used during the latter part of the 18th Century and the early part of the 19th Century in England, Anglesey and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Crédito
The Crédito was a local currency started on 1 May 1995 in Bernal, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on a garage sale, which was the first of many neighbourhood barter markets (mercados de trueque) that emerged in Argentina during the economic crisis.
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Currency
A currency (from curraunt, "in circulation", from currens, -entis), in the most specific use of the word, refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.
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Cyclos
Cyclos is online banking software for microfinance institutions, local banks (in developing countries) and complementary currency systems like LETS, TD4W Credits, Barter networks and time banks.
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Demurrage
The term "demurrage" from Old French demeurage, from demeurer - to linger, tarry - originated in vessel chartering and referred to the period when the charterer remained in possession of the vessel after the period normally allowed to load and unload cargo (laytime).
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Duif
Duif (means "pigeon") is Dutch surname of.
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Eco-Pesa
Eco-Pesa is the name of a Kenyan community currency, used to reduce poverty and support environmental conservation in a slums areas inside the Kongowea Location, Mombasa District, Kenya.
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Economics
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Emissions Reduction Currency System
Emissions Reduction Currency Systems (ERCS) are schemes that provide a positive economic and or social reward for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, either through distribution or redistribution of national currency or through the publishing of coupons, reward points, local currency, or complementary currency.
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Eusko
The eusko is a local currency released by the "Eusko Moneta erakundea", and it is one of a number of currencies that are active in the Basque Country.
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Exeter pound
The Exeter Pound (£E) is a form of local complementary currency, or community currency launched in Exeter, UK on 1 September 2015.
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Findhorn Ecovillage
Findhorn Ecovillage is an experimental architectural community project based at The Park, in Moray, Scotland, near the village of Findhorn.
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Fiscal localism
Fiscal localism comprises institutions of localized monetary exchange.
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Fureai kippu
Fureai kippu (in Japanese ふれあい切符:Caring Relationship Tickets) is a Japanese sectoral currency created in 1995 by the Sawayaka Welfare Foundation so that people could earn credits helping seniors in their community.
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Guelders
Guelders or Gueldres (Gelre, Geldern) is a historical county, later duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries.
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Hub Culture
Hub Culture is an invitation-led social network service that operates the global digital currency Ven, and is "the first to merge online and physical world environments." It was founded in November 2002.
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Informal sector
The informal sector, informal economy, or grey economy is the part of an economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government.
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Kelantanese dinar
The Kelantanese dinar is a currency issued by the Government of the Malaysian state of Kelantan, which purportedly is in conformance with the concept of the Islamic gold dinar.
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Kolion
The kolion is a local currency created to support the poor farmers of Kolionovo, a small town located 125 km south-east of Moscow.
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Le Temps
Le Temps (literally "The Times") is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA.
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LECOP
The LECOP was a bond issued by Argentine national government.
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Legal tender
Legal tender is a medium of payment recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation.
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Lewes Pound
The Lewes Pound is a local currency in use in the town of Lewes, East Sussex.
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List of community currencies in Canada
These are community currencies (also known as "local currencies") in Canada.
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List of community currencies in the United States
Community currencies that have been used in the United States.
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Liverpool pound
The Liverpool pound refers to various types of local currencies used in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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Local currency
In economics, a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations.
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Local exchange trading system
A local exchange trading system (also local employment and trading system or local energy transfer system; abbreviated LETS) is a locally initiated, democratically organised, not-for-profit community enterprise that provides a community information service and records transactions of members exchanging goods and services by using locally created currency.
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Local multiplier effect
The local multiplier effect (sometimes called the local premium) is the additional economic benefit accrued to an area from money being spent in the local economy.
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Local purchasing
Local purchasing is a preference to buy locally produced goods and services over those produced farther away.
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Medium of exchange
A medium of exchange is a tradeable entity used to avoid the inconveniences of a pure barter system.
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Mutual credit
"Mutual credit" (sometimes called "multilateral barter" or "credit clearing") is a term mostly used in the field of complementary currencies to describe a common, usually small scale, endogenous money system.
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Occitan (local currency)
Occitan is the name of a community currency started in 2010 in Pézenas, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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Ora (currency)
The Ora (symbol:Φ) is the local currency of Orania, an Afrikaner enclave in South Africa.
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Panal
Panal (پانعل, also Romanized as 'Pāna‘l; also known as Pā Na‘l Jangal) is a village in Jangal Rural District, in the Central District of Fasa County, Fars Province, Iran.
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Patacón (bond)
The Patacón (officially called Letra de Tesorería para Cancelación de Obligaciones de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) was a bond issued by the government of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during 2001.
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Peak oil
Peak oil is the theorized point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline.
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Private currency
A private currency is a currency issued by a private entity, be it an individual, a commercial business or a nonprofit enterprise.
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Saber (sectoral currency)
The Saber (Portuguese for to know) currency is a proposal of an educational sectoral currency initially presented in Brazil.
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Salt Spring dollar
The Salt Spring Dollar is a local currency issued by the Salt Spring Island Monetary Foundation to promote local history, art and goodwill on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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Sarafu-Credit
Sarafu-Credit (sarafu is the Kiswahili word for 'currency') is a community currency system operated in Kenya.
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Schumacher Center for a New Economics
The Schumacher Center for a New Economics (formerly the E. F. Schumacher Society) is a tax exempt nonprofit organization based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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Sectoral currency
A sectoral currency is a form of complementary currency that is restricted to a specific sector.
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Sharing economy
Sharing economy is an umbrella term with a range of meanings, often used to describe economic activity involving online transactions.
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Stroud pound
The Stroud Pound is a local currency in use in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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Tencent QQ
Tencent QQ, also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service developed by the Chinese company Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd..
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The Future of Money
The Future of Money is a book written by Bernard Lietaer, published by Random House in 2001, and currently out of print.
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Time-based currency
In economics, a time-based currency is an alternative currency or exchange system where the unit of account/value is the person-hour or some other time unit.
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Totnes pound
The Totnes pound is a complementary local currency, intended to support the local economy of Totnes, a town in Devon, England.
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Transition town
The terms transition town, transition initiative and transition model refer to grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
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Urstromtaler
The Urstromtaler is a community currency being used in the landlocked states Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt side by side with the euro.
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Velocity of money
Similar chart showing the velocity of a broader measure of money that covers M2 plus large institutional deposits, M3. The US no longer publishes official M3 measures, so the chart only runs through 2005. The term "velocity of money" (also "The velocity of circulation of money") refers to how fast money passes from one holder to the next.
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Ven (currency)
Ven (sign: VEN) is a global digital currency traded in international financial markets and originally used by members of a social network service, Hub Culture, to buy, share, and trade knowledge, goods, and services.
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Venti
Venti is a network storage system that permanently stores data blocks.
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Wörgl
Wörgl is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Kufstein district.
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WIR Bank
The WIR Bank, formerly the Swiss Economic Circle (German: Wirtschaftsring-Genossenschaft), or WIR, is an independent complementary currency system in Switzerland that serves businesses in hospitality, construction, manufacturing, retail and professional services.
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Zvolen
Zvolen (Zólyom; Altsohl) is a town in central Slovakia, situated on the confluence of Hron and Slatina rivers, close to Banská Bystrica.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency
