Broadening Employee Ownership Transnationally

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Broadening employee ownership transnationally: the role of international actors and agencies.

This working group will explore (1) structuring broad employee ownership in multinational corporations; (2) how international agencies / aid agencies can encourage broader employee ownership with an analysis of their experience with this (USAID in Egypt; InterAm Development Bank in Jamaica); (3) the experience with organizing transnational bodies to support employee ownership such as the European Federation of Employed Shareholders; (4) the possibility of imposing a transaction tax on certain speculative global economic transactions (a tiny transaction tax on international currency speculation would be a powerful funding tool); (5) consider avenues to put employee and other forms of broader ownership into the mainstream of international development efforts through UN agencies such as the UNDP and the ILO, and through international finance agencies such as the World Bank; and (6) other methods for broadening ownership through transnational actions.

The intent is to look at best practices of transnational actors and spread them.