Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs): Geographies of financial inclusion in the US and UK

Geoforum ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Appleyard
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
The Us ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Discourses of Institutionalization of Zakat Management System in Contemporary Indonesia: Effect of the Revitalization of Islamic Economics

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Adachi
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Management System ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Top Down ◽  
History Of

In Indonesia, zakat management was trying restructured in a top-down form based on the system followed in Malaysia and, in 1999, a related law was enacted. Although many previous studies have been conducted on zakat for its fundamental spiritual aspects and social roles, macroscopic research on its history of both theory and practice aspects is lacking. The transformation in the administrative reform of zakat, which focuses on not only the discourse of Islamic intellectuals but also the tone of the emerging Islamic economy and attitude of the management organization's practitioners and players, is important to understand the growth of Islam in Indonesia. This paper discusses how the zakat practice, which was an individual practice, expanded to include new objectives such as community development or financial inclusion without losing its original spiritual significance. Further, the paper clarifies how an institutionalized approach to zakat management helps in the development of new theoretical intervention areas and contributes to community development and empowerment, without compromising the original poverty alleviation programs. Keywords: Zakat management, Indonesia, Islamic economics

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