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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Challenge In Designing Government Programs For CED
(Making Waves, 2002)
The often sorry record of government in community economic development has important lessons for future CED program designers. Ingrained socio-economic distress requires long-term, multidimensional action. Local people ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peak Oil, Marginal Communities, and You
(Making Waves, 2006)
How expensive energy will change community practice.
Learning Community Development Finance: Doing Development in Arkansas
(Making Waves, 2006)
This thoughtful book review is a rich and fascinating case study of community development finance. The case study is based on ten years of work by an organization started in 1986, called Southern Development Bancorporation. ...
Project C11 - Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy
(2007-04-11)
This project explores one aspect of development finance in the social economy—namely, the role of the credit union as it appears today in AB and BC. It seeks to describe and analyze a range of activities relevant to the ...