Hemp Advocacy

People-Centered Economic Development was the description of an alternate economic paradigm presented to the 1996 Committee to Re-elect the President.

P-CED began as a 'poverty-relief via targeted community enterprise development' advocacy in Chapel Hill NC, US in 1997. We've been active since 1999 in Eastern Europe since sourcing the Tomsk Regional Initiative and in October 2006 delivered the 'Marshall Plan' for Ukraine. And since March 2004, P-CED operates as a UK-registered profit-for-purpose in the former Soviet Union.

P-CED places people at the center of economic development. P-CED takes the bottom line one step further: to people, past numbers. Enterprise profitability and economic success cannot be fairly measured in terms of gains of money capital alone. Profit is redefined in human terms rather than pure quantitative analyses that remove human and social concerns in the name of profit.

P-CED advocates for the development of localized people-centered economics on a global basis. Toward this end, each local community needs access to:

• a comprehensive, easily accessible information source about all of its currently available local resources

• an extended national and global information resource base to facilitate locating and sharing of resources

• resources for creation of community funding enterprises for profit, with profits to be applied to social needs in addition to private wealth creation