Loan Repayment Performance in Community Development Finance Institutions in the UK

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
William K. Derban ◽  
Jane M. Binner ◽  
Andy Mullineux
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Loan Repayment ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Community Development Finance

scholarly journals Community Development Finance: A Neo-Market Solution to Social Exclusion?

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTHUR AFFLECK ◽  
MARY MELLOR
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
Financial Exclusion ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Voluntary Organisations ◽  
Community Development Finance

Financial exclusion is increasingly being recognised as an important aspect of socio-economic inequality where disadvantaged individuals and communities are isolated from mainstream financial services, particularly affordable and readily available credit. In the face of these problems, social policy initiatives have emerged that have travelled under various names: social investment, micro-finance, community finance and community development finance. These initiatives are seen as the basis of a ‘new economics’ that will create self-sustaining local economies. The government is also promoting community development finance as an aspect of community regeneration with the aim of providing credit to poor communities to stimulate local enterprise and thereby reduce dependency on state support. The same approach is being taken to grant-funded community and voluntary organisations to encourage them into a neo-market approach to the delivery of services. This article explores the phenomenon of community development finance and assesses its proposed role in community regeneration and in relation to the community and voluntary sector.

The UK Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector: a Gypsy industry or route to empowerment?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ryder
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Asset Based Community Development ◽  
The Uk

The chapter analyses the historical and contemporary condition of the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma (GTR) civil society movement, its strengths, achievements, threats and pitfalls and the motivation, dynamism and tensions within its varied manifestations. It explores the struggles against assimilatory and discriminatory policy, the interplay between community bonds and diverse aspects of identity and analyses the transformative potential of inclusive, grassroots and asset based community development, which draws upon the strengths of identity and culture but fuses these with perceptions and strategies which are emancipatory and inclusive.

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