Critical Problems

• Unemployment and jobless growth
• The rich get richer, the poor get poorer
• GEAR is failing to deliver
• Escalating debt - personal, corporate and public
• Tyranny of debt-burdened money created by bank lending
• Globalisation as global economic warfare
• Increasing pressure and declining quality of life
• Chronic shortage of employment and purchasing power
• Rampant speculation and financial instability

SANE Solutions

• Formalised participation and co-operation of all stakeholders, including civil society, in economic policy formulation and decision-making
• Debt-free new money created by Government rather than debt-burdened new money generated via bank lending
• Issuing new money in the form of a Citizen's or Basic income, thereby stimulating local economies and eliminating destitution
• Taxing 'bads' rather than 'goods', i.e. using taxes on resource use, pollution and inappropriate activities, to shape economic behaviour
• Responsibility, co-operation and ethical investment and production to meet basic needs
• Technologies, life styles and environments that support sustainable local development
• Use of indicators rather than GDP to measure real benefits and costs of economic development
• Complementary currencies and Community Trading Systems to stimulate local economic development

SANE addresses the systemic and root causes of poverty and unemployment

SANE Goals

1. The SA government progressively adopts New Economics policies resulting in appropriate and sustainable economic development and poverty eradication
2. Civil Society's capacity to influence Government economic policy is developed; a critical mass of key leaders, organisations and coalitions support and advocate New Economics solutions
3. The development of an effective national coalition of progressive economics-sector NGOs and research organisations aligned to New Economics