Social and Solidarity Economy for Community Development of Return-to-Farm Migrants: A Case of Chungcheongbuk-do (province)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-504
Author(s):  
Ju-Seong Han
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Solidarity Economy

scholarly journals Social Solidarity Economy and Village-centric Development in North-West Cameroon

2021 ◽  
pp. 251660262110154
Author(s):  
Charles Fonchingong Che ◽  
Marcellus Mbah
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
North West ◽  
Secondary Sources

Amidst shrinking budgets for community development in most of sub-Saharan Africa, the social solidarity economy is touted as a model in local development. This article situates solidarity initiatives and capability-focused outcomes that deliver enhanced livelihoods, social security and community development. The conceptual framing of social theory, social capital and social economy informs this case study with focus on the Ndong Awing Cultural and Development Association, North-West region, Cameroon. The analysis of semi-structured interviews and secondary sources suggests that solidarity networks such as njangis, cooperatives, quarter development unions and diaspora networks promote village-centric development. These overlapping networks generate scarce financial and human resources–essential packages for livelihoods and welfare. Emerging state policy is yet to calibrate these mechanisms of ground-up, mutual development drives. Galvanising these solidarity assets require meaningful co-productionand revamped state−community relations. This article offers a paradigm shift in how village groups mobilise income, capital and financing of village projects, nurtured through human development and agency.

scholarly journals Banco Grameen e Bancos Comunitários de Desenvolvimento: Uma Análise Comparativa

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Campanharo De Moraes ◽  
Arnaldo Mazzei Nogueira ◽  
Regina Maria Da Luz Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Operating Mode ◽  
Bank Performance ◽  
Base Of The Pyramid ◽  
Grameen Bank ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Social Management

The purpose of this paper is to show the work of Community Development Banks (BCDs) as compared to the original Grameen Bank, indicating a fertile field of microcredit experiences that opens up the possibility of alternatives to reducing social inequality and increased opportunities for income and work to segments at the base of the pyramid. So the topic is included in the areas of Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS) and Social Management. Based on a bibliographical and documentary research on the Grameen Bank and the Banco Palmas, it was possible to describe pioneering bank performance characteristics in operation with microcredit, Grameen Bank, and also BCDs working characteristics in Brazil. It was found that there are differences in the operating mode between the first bank and the Brazilian BCDs, although the essence and purpose is the same: encouraging the local community to improve the quality of life of its residents. This research shows that in the ways of organization and business, respect for culture and local needs should prevail as opposed to imposing based performance rules based on outside interests to communities.

The Evolution of Community Development Banks Influenced by E-Payment and Its Social Impact on Brazil

2022 ◽  
pp. 229-249
Author(s):  
Otávio L. C. Romano Jr. ◽  
Bruno R. D. Lucena ◽  
Armando Lirio de Souza ◽  
Thiago Poleto
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Mobile Payment ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Disadvantaged Populations ◽  
Low Interest Rates

Microcredit involves offering credit in small amounts and at low interest rates to economically disadvantaged populations and those who cannot offer guarantees. The offer of microcredit for solidarity purposes is not aimed at increasing an organization's profits but rather toward local economic development and as an initiative to eradicate poverty. The first community development bank was founded in Brazil in 1998. Such banks offer financial, solidary-based, networked services of an associative nature and are aimed at reorganizing local economies through job and income generation and establishment of a solidarity economy. This chapter presents the following problem question: How has the mobile payment or electronic payment technology impacted the performance of Brazilian solidary digital banks? It also presents guidelines for replicating this model in developing countries.

Solidarity Economy Markets as “mobilizational commons”: re-signifying the market through the lens of cooperation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Margarida Esteves
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
The Town ◽  
Santa Maria

Abstract This article explores an understudied dimension of Solidarity Economy, which is how spaces of community development-oriented commercialization balance the embedment of their activities in cooperative norms and practices, while at the same time mobilizing support from mainstream society and its institutions. The analysis is based on the case study of the Solidarity Economy markets organized by Esperança/Cooesperança, a community development project based in the town of Santa Maria, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It engages the concept of “edge work”, from Social Permaculture Design, in framing Solidarity Economy markets as spaces that manifest Karl Polanyi’s vision of an “active society” in counter-movement to market commodification. This materializes as a reconciliation of cooperative practices with market mechanisms, based on trust-building and political mobilization, among different social sectors and agents, around direct producer-to-consumer exchanges. The analysis frames these markets as “mobilizational commons”: Sites of re-signification of market activity through the engagement of otherwise competing producers in experimenting, enacting and coordinating cooperative practices, as well as of consumers, social movements and the state in the re-framing economic activity over time. It concludes with an analysis of the political limitations to the “edge work” promoted by Esperança/Cooesperança, posed by electoral rotation and political socialization, as well as the suggestion to frame further research on this topic in the context of structural power relations.

Local economies of Brexit

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter North
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Diverse Economies ◽  
Asset Based Community Development ◽  
The City

Liverpool is a city which has, in many ways, undoubtedly and observably benefited from Objective One EU funding to the extent that there is pretty much universal agreement that this has underpinned the city’s recent renaissance. That said, outside the city centre persistent long-term economic problems endure. This paper reviews the mixed experiences of Merseyside’s Objective One ‘Pathways to Inclusion’ programme as an attempt to solve problems of concentrated deprivation, arguing that the success of conventional approaches has been mixed. Brexit provides an opportunity for a rupture with forms of local economic development that have been progressively neoliberalised through time. It argues for a focus on opportunities, not deficits and absences, using asset-based community development, diverse economies, and solidarity economy approaches.

Social finance and community development: exploring egalitarian possibilities

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Brendan Murtagh ◽  
Niamh Goggin
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that the expansion of social finance is critical to neoliberal rollout tactics, and is also necessary and useful for community development approaches that respond to the needs of the excluded. It focuses on the relationship between community development and economic regeneration, highlighting the importance of the ownership of assets and critically, finance, to support the social and solidarity economy. The chapter first sets social finance in the context of the relationship between money and capitalist markets, before briefly describing the development of a range of services, products, and intermediaries, nationally as well as globally. This is followed by a review of issues related to demand and supply, and two case studies of progressive social finance initiatives. It concludes by setting out the implications of social finance for community development.

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