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BALTA Handbook for Case Studies in the Social Economy
(2009-02-13)
The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is a five year initiative to conduct research on the social economy. This handbook provides a framework, detailed guidelines and methodology suggestions for case ...
Credit Unions and the Social Economy: Being Competitive and Building Capacity
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-09)
The credit union sector occupies a significant place in both Alberta and British Columbia and credit unions are a prominent element of the social economy in the two provinces. This report examines the results of research ...
Community Economic Development, Community Development Finance: Introducing the Terms Exploring the Relationship
(2007-09-18)
How the two terms community economic development and community development finance are defined is crucial to the
construction of any development system, whether it be geographic or functional in scope. What the terms are ...
Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy
(2010-09-20)
This proposal/plan outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This project conducted initial exploratory research concerning credit unions as a foundation for developing a ...
BALTA Project D8 - Credit Unions and Rural Reinvestment – Phase B
(2010-08-21)
This project proposal/plan outlines planned research of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance that builds on the results of earlier research (Project D5) on credit unions and rural community reinvestment. This ...
Credit Unions and the Rural Social Economy
(2010-06-04)
This research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) explored the unique role of credit unions
related to financing the social economy and contributing to rural revitalization. Several case ...
Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy and Rural Community Re-investment
(2009-04-06)
This proposal/plan documetns a research project that examines the role of credit unions in supporting the social economy and is a second stage of research building on SERC 3’s research project C11. At the same time, this ...
Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2007)
This research paper was presented to the 2007 Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. It discusses a case study of the recent history of successful innovation and development in the co-operative sector ...
Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(2007-09-18)
In recent years, social science research has increasingly acknowledged the role of the social economy in
building sustainable communities, and, around the world, co-operatives are recognized as major actors in
the social ...