Auroville's total revenues 2008-2014
In December 2013,
Auroville Today reported on the work done by Manuel and Henk Thomas researching
the Auroville economy. Over a period of 15 years, the chartered accountant from
Chennai and the professor from The Netherlands had been studying how the
economy had developed in the first 40 years of Auroville’s existence. It
resulted in an impressive scientific monograph, Economics for People and Earth
– the Auroville Case 1968-2008, launched in October 2013. [see AVToday # 293, December 2013]
Harini Sampathkumar of
the Auroville Social Research Centre has now updated the work for the years
2008-2014, collecting data of all commercial units and services, the Central
Fund (nowadays called City Services), and all grants and donations. She gave a
presentation of her findings on June 27th.
The work, said Harini in
her introduction, had taken 18 months, many more than anticipated as the
financial data over the years 2008-2010 were not avai...
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