Alternative currencies are means of payment that circulate alongside—as an alternative or
complement to—official currencies. While these currencies have existed for a long time, both …

Background: The industrial transformation requires a speedy shift to financial digitization.
One of the needs for financial digitalization in the study of Islamic contracts and Islamic …

We describe a dataset of account information and detailed transaction records for a digital
complementary currency in Kenya. This “Sarafu system” initially encompassed several local …

Circulation is the characteristic feature of successful currency systems, from community
currencies to cryptocurrencies to national currencies. In this paper, we propose a network …

The humanitarian sector has gone through a major shift toward injection of cash into
vulnerable communities as its core modality. On this trajectory toward direct currency …

This paper assesses the proposal to transform the monetary system into an Ecology of
money, that is, into a system made of a large diversity of complementary currencies. Its …

Our current monetary system displays major flaws as to whether it can support the ecological
turn. This article stylises them as bank credit, a-territoriality and non-specialisation of money …

Money is critical for a regenerative future. Transforming it is an unavoidable social, political,
and economic endeavor that must be a global priority if we are to prevent future financial …

Monetary policies and adjustments during a financial crisis depend on policy-makers'
conceptions on what money is and how it works. There is sufficient consensus among …

Waste banks are one of the strategies for implementing 3R (Reuse, Reduce, Recycle) in
managing waste at the source at the community level with an economic incentive pattern …