Objectives

· To focus resources for research and development in formulating solutions to the social, structural, and systemic problems of poverty around the world. · To create a global democratic market economy through the promotion of broad-based capital ownership, capital homesteading, community investment corporations, family assets development, value-based management, and the creation and mobilization of capital credit for productive purposes.

· To create a global democratic market economy through the promotion of broad-based capital ownership, capital homesteading, community investment corporations, family assets development, value-based management, and the creation and mobilization of capital credit for productive purposes.

· To organize leadership education for carrying out economic reforms, whether on discrete initiatives such as conversion and privatization, or national restructuring of state economies to tap into vast global markets.

· To facilitate, advise, and promote technology for sustainable and ecologically sound growth and the advancement of cutting-edge technologies to improve the quality of life in urban and rural areas, with emphasis on the uses of technology centers and transfers of advanced systems and best practices.

· To collaborate with other development organizations and institutions that have similar objectives to expand opportunities and empower the disadvantaged.

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