Brazil is a cash-based society where people pay in cash for big stuff, like cars and houses.
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Creating an incentive-based society, although trimming back certain extreme elements of legal, though undesirable behaviour, is rightly the way forward.
The issue is made more complex by the evolving relationship between Greenland, a hunting-based society of just over 50, 000 people, and its former colonial ruler.
Although Russia is still primarily a cash based society, recent research by MasterCard revealed that card payments are rapidly gaining popularity in the country.
The academic was also a Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research and a member and past president of the London-based Society for Psychical Research.
It is a defining moment on whether a kinship-based society, dominated by tribal, religious and ethnic loyalty has reached a level of critical mass sufficient for national unity.
Anthony Holmes, director of the Africa program for the Council on Foreign Relations, said it is unlikely Somalia will emerge as "a breeding ground for terrorism" because of its clan-based society.
In our technologically-based society, ensuring that the nonprofit organizations and causes we support are prepared for and ready to capitalize on several philanthropic trends, including the rise of mobile giving is critical.
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Intersex conditions occur in one out of every 2, 000 births in the United States, according to the Rohnert Park, California-based Intersex Society of North America.
That issue was the topic of recent forums in the U.S. organized by the New York-based Asia Society, where Loh and representatives of Eurasian, ethnic Indian and Southeast Asian groups in Hong Kong (including this writer) spoke.
Speaking at the New York-based Asia Society last week, Clinton said the Obama administration wants to "develop a broader and deeper" relationship with Asia, a region that has felt overlooked by the United States despite its growing global importance.
Unlike the stiff Federal Sentencing Guidelines, state prisons offer a parole system that lets inmates return to society based on their behavior in prison and their likelihood of returning to society as a better citizen.
The ex-DEA heads are issuing the statements though the Florida-based Save Our Society from Drugs, a national group lobbying against legalization.
"I'm absolutely confident that the people of the Middle East are working hard to build a society based upon justice, " he said.
But he says in the end it would better serve the common good by creating a society based on what the individual wants.
No government has a magic wand which can be waved to reverse overnight the breakdown of our traditional society based on the family.
Looking at these numbers indicates that CSR strategies can help companies turn profits and promote principles based on improving society and the environment.
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The genetic research was supported by the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
Cold weather "is probably the biggest challenge for people who want to run barefoot, " says Tamara Gerken, the 46-year-old founder of the Atlanta-based Barefoot Runners Society.
The agreement that has emerged from the Northern Ireland peace talks opens the way for the people there to build a society based on enduring peace, justice and equality.
"The commencement of IRA decommissioning offers us a chance to take the gun out of Irish politics for good and to build a new society based not on coercion but consent, " he said.
Benedict has made it clear that he sees this devout Catholic nation, with its new church-friendly government, as a model for the rest of the continent to build a society based on Christian values.
"Today the world lost a Christian statesman, a dedicated servant of prisoners and a powerful example of God's ability to transform a life, " said Lamar Vest, president and CEO of the New York-based American Bible Society.
Throughout the trip, Benedict has paid tribute to his predecessor, Poland's favorite son, John Paul II, and his goal has been to exhort the inhabitants of Europe's most devoutly Catholic country to show the rest of the continent how to build a society based on Christian values.
His vision of an Ownership Society is based on entrepreneurial values and is right for these times.
Rather than disappearing, computer-based versions of Anasazi society sometimes go on.
On a deeper note it is much more, because our whole society is based on the working men and women of America, and without education we cannot advance in the world.
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"A kid growing up in the 'hood has different expectations than a kid growing up in Newtown, " said Bocanegra, who works with ex-offenders at the faith-based nonprofit Community Renewal Society in Chicago.
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