ethical and solidarity finance

17 publications

• Ethical Finance and Prosperity. Beyond Environmental, Social and Governance Investing.

  Ugo Biggeri, Giovanni Ferri, Federica Ielasi, Pedro Manuel Sasia Santos, Routledge Ed., 2024

• Democratizing Finance. Origins of the Community Development Financial.

  Clifford N. Rosenthal,, Fiesenpress, United States, November 2018

• STIR Issue 21, Spring 2018 - Community Organising: Back to its roots

  Stir to Action, April 2018

  Stir to action

• Social and Solidarity Economy. Beyond the Fringe.

  Peter Utting, ZED books UK, April 2015

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Is There a New Economy in the Making?

  Occasional Paper 10. Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy

  Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk, Marie-Adélaïde Matheï, UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2014

  UNRISD

• Informal Finance and Formal Microfinance. The Rationale of their Coexistence in the Context of Urban African Financial Markets.

  Thèse de l’Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

  Pierre-Germain Umuhire, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Belgique, May 2013

• The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance : Hacking the Future of Money

  Brett Scott, Pluto Press, United States, May 2013

• How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy

  The Spring 2013 Issue of YES! Magazine

  May 2013

• Financing our Foodshed. Growing Local Food with Slow Money.

  Carol Peppe Hewitt, New Society Publishers, United States, April 2013

• Trust and Ethics in Finance : Innovative ideas from the Robin Cosgrove Prize

  Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Paul Dembinski (Ed.), Globethics Publications, September 2012

• The Resilience Imperative. Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, New Society Publishers, BC, Canada, June 2012

• Small Change, Big Deal. Money as if people mattered.

  Jennifer Kavanagh, John Hunt Publishing, Business Books, London, March 2012

• Social Banking and Social Finance Answers to the Economic Crisis

  Roland Benedikter, Springer, New-York., 2011

• Local Dollars, Local Sense How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity

  Michael H. Shuman, Chelsea Green Publishing, United States, 2011

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right.

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, New Economics Foundation, UK, October 2009

• Money matters : Putting the eco into economics - global crisis, local solutions

  David Boyle, Alastair Sawday Publishing, UK, 2009

• Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered

  Woody Tasch, Chelsea Green Publishing, United States, 2008

A thesis

• Reducing Financing Costs for Local Communities’ Welfare. An analysis of the Swedish local government funding agency Kommuninvest from the perspective of the social and public economy.

  Master in social economics cooperatives and non-profit organiisationsIONS, Universitat Valencia

  Esther M. Schmitt, September 2015

19 Videos

• The Power of Public Banking: You Can « Public Bank » On That

  October 2023

• Minga, a multi-solution cooperative in Portugal

  March 2022

• Shared Economies: How Co-Ops and Public Banks Make a Difference for Women

  An Economy of our Own

  2021

• #SSEMomentum - Day 1

  International conference “The SSE Momentum: Finance for Inclusion and the Future of Work”, Trento, Nov 2019

  November 2019

  BIT/ILO

• SolidFund: Growing the UK Cooperative Economy

  August 2016

• Break the Chains, Build Local Power

  May 2016

• 2016 International INAISE Conference - May 11th (all the conferences): Cooperatives and their role in social economy and social development

  May 2016

  INAISE, WEBTV.coop

• PALMAS - legendas Inglês

  EDLISA B. PEIXOTO, March 2016

• Oikocredit in Ivory Coast

  6ta Academia sobre ESS (Puebla, México), 23-27 Nov 2015)

  November 2015

• Solikon 2015: Alternative Finanzierungsinstrumente auf Gegenseitigkeit

  September 2015

• Community Shares Case Study - Chase Community Solar, Cannock

  June 2015

• Social and Solidarity Finance: Tensions, Opportunities and Transformative Potential

  2015 Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa

  May 2015

  UNRISD

• Is human nature a threat to sustainable banking? | World Finance

  April 2015

• BNY Mellon: Social Finance

  2015

• The Universal Standards for Social Performance Management (USSPM)

  December 2014

  Social performance Task Force

• The PRICE idea. Why Fair Trade and Ethical Finance work well together.

  October 2014

• Series of video on the money system of Positive Money

  March 2014

• GABV member, Triodos Bank: Member story about change makers

  November 2013

• Triodos Bank in One Minute

  2013

7 pedagogical tools

• SSE.E IVET : Training module 3. Ethical and Solidarity Finance and Resources

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  August 2018

  Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V., Solidarius Italia, RIPESS Europe, CRIES, APDES

• Syllabus: Solidarity Economy Movements

  Craig Borowiak, April 2016

• A recipe book for social finance .A practical guide on designing and implementing initiatives to develop social finance instruments and markets

  European Commission Eva Varga, Malcolm Hayday, January 2016

• Challenging the crisis : a guide to Social and Solidarity Economy

  December 2015

• Vermont Dollars Vermont Sense. A handbook for investors, Businesses, Finance Profesionnals, and Everybody Else

  Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Michael H. Shuman, 2015

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Development : The reader 2014 (ILO Academy)

  Social and Solidarity Economy Academy, 28th July – 1st August 2014, Campinas, Brazil.

  Marcelo Alejandro Vieta, Arildo Mota Lopes, Nancy Néamtan, Leandro Pereira Morais, Augusto Togni de Almeida Abreu,, Roberto Marinho Alves da Silva, Leonardo Pamplona, Peter Utting, Antonella Noya, 2014

  BIT/ILO

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work

  Reader for the ILO Academy on Social And Solidarity Academy 2011

  Nancy Néamtan, Mathieu de Poorter, Leandro Pereira Morais, Bénédicte Fonteneau, Fredrick Wanyama, Carlo Borzaga, Giulia Galera, Tom Fox, Nathaneal Ojong, October 2011

  BIT/ILO

3 proposals

• The Great Transition: Navigating Social, Economic, Ecological Change in Turbulent Times

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, October 2009

  CCCR, NEF, BALTA

• Proposal Paper for the XXI Century: Solidarity Finance

  This Proposal Paper is a summary of the work by the Solidarity Finance Workshop.

  Renée Chao Beroff, November 2001

• Proposal paper for the 21 century: Finance for the Common Good

  This Proposal Paper is a summary of the work by the workshop Escaping from the Financialization Maze: Finance for the Common Good.

  Paul Dembinski, November 2001

40 case studies

• Upscaling social investment. 50 case studies

  Areas of relevance to developing and upscaling social investment in Europe and draw on international experiences relevant to the European situation.

  avril 2000

  INAISE

• Filed visit 5 - Banca Etica

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• A Case Study of Microfinance and Community Development Banks in Brazil Private or Common Goods?

  Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly August 2016 vol. 45 no. 4 suppl 116S-133S

  Marek Hudon, Camille Meyer, August 2016

• Prefinancing mechanisms for Fair Trade : 13 factsheets for companies and producer organisations

  June 2015

• Educating and Financing the Poor: Credit Union Promotion Club

  Jun-E Tan, 2014

• Spearheading organic farming: Koperasi Belia Islam

  Jun-E Tan, 2014

• Vth URGENCI Symposium: Monterey California, USA, January 2013

  International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #96

  Jocelyn Parot, Yvon Poirier, March 2013

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Katosi Women’s Development Trust in Uganda: When women take a hand in their own development

  International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #95

  Alina Darmadi, Judith Hitchman, February 2013

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• The Community Empowerment International Fund (La Limonada – Guatemala)

  Samuel Brizuela, January 2013

  Pangea Sostenible/Sustainable Pangea

• Microcredit and the Discourse of Empowerment: A Case Study in Jinotega, Nicaragua

  Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 26(1)

  Kristen Norman,, 2013

• From strength to strength: The mutual support and empowerment group of village women in India (ASSEFA)

  Eléonore Dupré, November 2012

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• The Co-construction of Solidarity Finance in Quebec: a Systemic Approach

  Brief Reliess n°6

  October 2012

  RELIESS

• Local development and the social economy in urban Quebec – Community Development Economic Corporations (CDECs)

  Brief Reliess n°4

  October 2012

  RELIESS

• La Base / The Working World (Buenos Aires – Argentina)

  Felipe Zalamea, November 2011

  Pangea Sostenible/Sustainable Pangea

• MFIs lay small-debt trap in Andhra

  October 2010

  Infochange News and analysis on social justice and development issues in India

• The Association Terre de Liens: An example in Echausses, France of multi-purpose property

  Martine Theveniaut, May 2010

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Microfinance and Small Farmers in India

  July 2009

  CED

• Rickshaw Bank in India

  An initiative for alternative employment

  Yvon Poirier, February 2009

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Alalay Sa Kaunlaran, Inc. (ASKI) as a social enterprise in the Philippines

  A micro-finance insitution in favor of micro-enterprise development

  January 2009

  ASKI

• Mainstream Marketing for Community Based Enterprises Upland Marketing Foundation Inc., in the Philipines

  Interventions for Indigenous People (IP) and Upland communities in the Philippines – to secure land tenure, increase productivity through agro-forestry and provide marketing assistance to address economic concerns.

  January 2009

  UMFI

• VisionFund (Cambodia )

  Microfinance, as a vehicle for serving the Poor in both urban and rural areas

  January 2009

• Chiemgauer, Germany and Banco Palmas, Brazil

  Social money for sound community development

  Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, January 2009

• Perspectives on Solidarity Economy: Case Study of Self-Help Group in Melikan Village, Central Java

  Asian Dialogue on Oeconomy Case Study Series No. 2009-08

  2009

  Bina Swadaya Foundation, Indonesia

• A cooperative in India: the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

  Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

  CED

• Inner City Development Cooperative (Quezon City, Philippines)

  An original savings and loans initiative for the urban poor

  Yvon Poirier, December 2007

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Caisse d’économie solidaire Desjardins (Desjardins Solidarity Credit Union)

  A unique financial institution

  Yvon Poirier, June 2007

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• The Social Performance of ASHI: a Participatory Assessment

  The SPI (Social Performance Indicators) initiative, now on its second phase, is testing the auditing tool developed in the first phase with selected MFIs in various parts of the world. The objectives of SPI Steering Committee in conducting this test are to check the accessibility, availability and reliability of the information provided, to define the questions precisely and to test the capacity of the tool to distinguish between different types of MFIs and different approaches to clients, in terms of social performances. One of those selected for an in-depth test of the social performance audit tool is Ahon Sa Hirap, Inc. (ASHI). ASHI engaged an external reviewer to administer the social performance audit. In the process, the external reviewer suggested adopting a participatory approach by involving the clients of ASHI in the external review. This report intends to describe this participatory approach to social performance assessment and to present the results of the experiment.

  Mila M. Bunker, February 2005

• ASSEFA : 35 Years of Service to Rural Communities of India

  A holistic approach to community development

  Yvon Poirier, October 2004

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Interview with Julienne Houngbo, ACFB (Association of Financing Funds of Benin) , Cotonou, Republic of Benin

  Julienne Houngbo is a member of the Association of Financing Funds of Benin (ACFB), where she currently holds the position of president.

  Aurélien Atidegla, November 2003

• Commercial Aspects of SHG Banking in India

  A study on the SHG Bank Linkage Programme in India presented at the New Dehli SHG Banking seminar, November 2002. The study was supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, New Delhi and Eschborn/Germany, and NABARD, Mumbai.

  Harishkumar R. Dave, November 2002

• CONSORZIO ETIMOS, Italy

  Case study of the Finsol workshop

  Marco Santori, July 2002

• The Risks of Social Capital

  A response to the mid-term report on ‘Social Finance and Social Ties’ based on the experience of the People’s Rural Development Association (PRDA), a Sri Lankan NGO which has an ‘Economic Initiatives’ programme in 40 Sri Lankan villages. Contribution to the « Finance of solidarity and social links » workshop, Dourdan, (France), July 2002.

  Fernando Sunimal, July 2002

• Workshop on Social Finance and Social Ties - Kashf Foundation, Lahore Pakistan

  In parallel with the dynamics of the solidarity socioeconomy pole and the solidarity Finance workshop, a working group (FPH, CIDR, Intercoopération suisse, IRAM, FINANSOL) met regularly, since March 2000, to think about the connection between solidarity finance and social links.

  June 2002

  Kashf Foundation

• Kashf Foundation: Towards the Economic Empowerment of Women

  This document presents the foundation and gives a progress report of its financial activities between 2000 and 2002.

  June 2002

  Kashf Foundation

• The Historical Perspective – Case Study of Savings and Credit Associations in Albania

  Case study of the Finsol workshop

  Ruth Egger, May 2002

• Comparative analysis of the MYRADA and SEWA cases, India

  Case study of the Finsol workshop

  Teresa Cerveau, April 2002

• Case study « Microfinance and Social Ties »: WAGES (Togo) and FDEA (Senegal)

  Presentation of NGOs WAGES (Women and Associations Gain Both Economic and Social) and FDEA (Femme Développement Entreprise en Afrique).

  Yves Fournier, April 2002

• Analysis of two French solidarity finance tools: the NEF and the CIGALES

  Case studies on: « Microfinance and social ties »

  Pauline Grosso, October 2001

• Presentation of Banca Etica, Italy

  Case study of the Finsol workshop

  Francesco Bicciato, July 2000

• Presentation of Banca Etica

  An introduction to Banca Etica, the first alternative bank in Italy, constituted as a bank framework in May 98 and operational in February 99.

  Francesco Bicciato, June 2000

80 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Action guide for advancing Community Wealth Building in the United States

  Democracy Collaborative

  Sarah McKinley, Neil McInroy, August 2023

• Ethical finance in Europe - fifth report

  Ugo Biggeri, Mauro Meggiolaro, Daniel Sorrosal, October 2022

  FEBEA

• Ethical and sustainable finance in Europe. Second report

  Matteo Cavallito, Pascal Lokiec, Mauro Meggiolaro, 2019

  Banca Etica

• STRATEGY FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER OF SOCIAL FINANCE Best practices of Québec and strategy for adaptation to Seoul

  Marguerite Mendell, Nancy Néamtan, Émilien Gruet, Jang Jongick, Vanessa Sorin, Kim Jinhwan, Lee Garam, 2018

  C.I.T.I.E.S

• Promoting Decent Work at the Local Level through South-South and Triangular Cooperation Contributions from the Global South

  Praia, Cabo Verde, from 17th - 20th October, for the 4th World Forum of Local Economic Development (LED).

  Edited by Anita Amorim, Hassan Jaber, October 2017

  BIT/ILO

• Stokvel Report: How South Africans save their money

  Article of business report, June 2017

  Rudzani Mulaudzi, June 2017

• Understanding Cooperative Finance as a new common

  Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, vol.88, pp.155-177

  Anaïs Périlleux, Marthe Nyssens, January 2017

  CIRIEC

• Rural finance: Insights from three continents

  Passerelles n°3

  AA.VV., May 2016

• Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons. Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives.

  David Bollier, Patrick Conaty, January 2016

• Cooperativa Integral Minga in the Alentejo Region . New Production Practices of Solidarity.

  SCHWERPUNKT: KOLLABORATIVE ÖKONOMIE

  Jorge Gonçalves, 2016

• The Invisible Player: Social and Solidarity Finance for Financing for Development

  Think Piece Series The Road To Addis and Beyond

  Marie-Adélaïde Matheï, September 2015

  UNRISD

• Social and Solidarity Finance: Tensions, Opportunities and Transformative Potential. AN UNRISD WORKSHOP IN COLLABORATION WITH FES AND ILO.

  Event brief n°2

  Simon Gewölb, Marie-Adélaïde Matheï, Joannah Caborn Wengler, July 2015

  UNRISD, BIT/ILO

• Public Policy for a Social Economy

  Journal of peer Production, issue #7

  John Restakis, July 2015

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Beyond the Fringe? Introductory chapter

  Peter Utting, April 2015

  UNRISD

• Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Financing for Development (FfD) – A concept note about FfD, Yvon Poirier, RIPESS Board of Directors

  Yvon Poirier, March 2015

• Fair trade and ethical finance: the possible synergy

  Guide produced in the context of the PRICE project

  Simone Grillo, February 2015

• Review of impact assessment methodologies for ethical finance

  Giacomo Pinaffo, Malcolm Hayday, Aurora Prospero, January 2015

  FEBEA

• What is Community Wealth Building & Why is it so Important?

  Ted Howard, December 2014

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Is There a New Economy in the Making?

  Occasional Paper 10. Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy

  Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk, Marie-Adélaïde Matheï, September 2014

  UNRISD

• The Remarkable Expansion of Community Banks in Brazil: Discovering Palmas’ Methodology

  Rev. Bras. de Casos de Ensino em Administração Volume 4 Número 2

  Marlei POZZEBON, Tania PEREIRA CHRISTOPOULOS, Jahan ARA PEERALY, Fabio PRADO SALDANHA, August 2014

• Social and Solidarity Economy and the Challenge of Sustainable Development

  A Position Paper by the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (TFSSE)

  United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (TFSSE), July 2014

  UNTFSSE

• Social Solidarity Economy and Sustainable Development Financing. Ripess contributions to the ICESDF 12 May 2014 Dialogue Session.

  Daniel Tygel, May 2014

• Social and solidarity economy for sustainable development: its premises – and the Social Economy Basel example of practice

  International Review of Sociology: Revue Internationale de Sociologie. Publisher: Routledge.

  Isidor Wallimann, April 2014

• The « Individualist Entrepreneur » vs. Socially Sustainable Development: Can Microfinance Build Community?

  Journal of Economic Issues, 2014, vol. 48, issue 2, pages 377-386

  Tonia Warneke, 2014

• Community Economic Development:: Understanding the New Zealand Context

  New Zealand Community Economic Development Trust Di Jennings, 2014

• How to create valuable community work

  CWA Magasine

  October 2013

• ROSCAs: An Instrument for the Sustainable Development of the Solidarity Economy

  Submitted to the Asian Solidarity Economy Council, on the occasion of the 5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

  Valerie Siganga Mbamaonyeukwu, October 2013

• Community Development Banks: Enabling Access to Finance for Poor Communities

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Camille Meyer, Leonardo Prates Leal, September 2013

  UNRISD

• Solidarity Economy Initiatives from the Ground Up: What can we Learn from the Women Home-based Workers of Southeast Asia?

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, May 2013

  UNRISD

• Social and Solidarity Economy: An opportunity to enhance youth employment : the Reader 2013 (ILO Academy)

  Social and Solidarity Economy Academy, 8-12 April 2013, Agadir, Morocco

  Leandro Pereira Morais, Youssef Alaoui Solaimani, Nancy Néamtan, Roberto Di Meglio, Fredrick Wanyama, April 2013

• Resilience in a Downturn: The power of financial cooperatives

  ILO Publication

  Johnston Birchall, March 2013

  BIT/ILO

• Developments in Solidarity Economy in Asia

  Denison Jayasooria, March 2013

• SOLIDARITY FINANCE: AN EVOLVING LANDSCAPE

  Marguerite Mendell, Rocío Nogales, 2013

• Policy Brief on Social Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Activities in Europe.

  ©OECD/European Union publication

  Antonella Noya, Emma Clarence, 2013

• Trust and Ethics in Finance: Innovative ideas from the Robin Cosgrove Prize

  Multiple authors, September 2012

• Solidarity finance through community development banks as a strategy for reshaping local economies: lessons from Banco Palmas

  Rausp. Revista de Administração., São Paulo, v.47, n.3, p.500-515, jul./ago/set. 2012

  Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, Jeová Torres Silva Júnior, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo, July 2012

• Discourses of social change in contemporary democracies: The ideological construction of an Ecuadorian women’s group based on “solidarity economy and finance”

  in Text and Talk 32(3):329-348

  Esperanza Morales-López, May 2012

• Policies of Microcredit in Brazil : an analysis from the case of Community Development Banks (CDBs)

  Revue du MAUSS permanente, 3 mars 2012 [en ligne].

  Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, March 2012

• Solidarity economy experiments in Brazil and Venezuela and the lessons for a Southern African debate on solidarity finance for informal trade

  Ibrahim Steyn, January 2012

• Stokvels - A Hidden Economy Unpacking the potential of South African traditional saving schemes

  2012

• Sweden’s JAK Bank Liberating community finance from the ball & chain of compound interest

  From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012

• The Co-operative Land Bank. A Solution in Search of a Home.

  From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Michael Lewis, Shann Turnbull, 2012

• Sowing the seeds of Solidarity Economy: Asian experiences

  Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr., 2012

• Effective change strategies for the Great Transition. Five leverage points for civil society organisations

  CSOs Report 2012

  2012

• Solidarity Economy – A chance for Southern Africa. An introduction to the concept and practical experiences from Brazil

  Claudia Haarmann, Dirk Haarmann, October 2011

• Working Paper Solidarity Finance

  International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011

  Rocío Nogales, Marguerite Mendell, October 2011

  Chantier de l’économie sociale

• Banking as if Society Mattered: The Case of Triodos Bank

  Katrin Dr. Käufer, January 2011

  MIT Colab

• Low-Income Communities and the Great Recession: Financial Trends in Community Development Credit Unions, 2009

  October 2010

• Empowerment through participation: assessing the voices of leaders from recycling cooperatives in São Paulo, Brazil

  Community Development Journal Advance Access published October 19, 2010

  Crystal Tremblay, October 2010

  PSWM

• Banks and microfinance in Europe

  MicroFinance Europe n°7, June 2010

  June 2010

• Public Policy Trends and Instruments Supporting the Social Economy: International Experiences

  This paper highlights public policy trends and instruments from around the world that use the Social Economy as a framework to enhance socio-economic development and environmental sustainability.

  Crystal Tremblay, April 2010

• African NGO’s and Womanism: Microcredit and Self-Help

  Journal of African American Studies 2010, 14:171-180

  Jane Duran, 2010

• The Atlas of job création good practices for social inclusion

  Ethical Finance for an active, creative and solidarity-based Europe. Practical datasheet.

  2010

  FEBEA

• The Ecology of Finance. An alternative white paper on banking and financial sector reform. November 2009

  November 2009

  NEF

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right.

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, October 2009

• Mission Drift in Microfinance, the influence of institutional and country risk indicators on the trade-off between the financial and social performance of microfinance institutions.

  Pim Engels, October 2009

• MFI efficiency and State intervention – what correlation?

  (Empirical analysis of the two main strategic French microcredit models - used in this paper as analytical grids for the ongoing debates about microfinance in the South)

  Benoît Granger, Stefanie Lämmerman, June 2009

• Revisiting the economy by taking into account the different dimensions of well-being

  Working Paper n.60 Gennaio 2009

  Leonardo Becchetti, January 2009

• The French context of microfinance: A socioeconomic approach of short financial relationships through modern “solidarity-based” financial structures and actors

  International Journal of Social Economics, 2009, vol. 36, issue 12, pages 1118-1132

  Pascal Glémain, 2009

• Financing the Social Economy in Québec. A Work in Progress.

  Marguerite Mendell, 2009

• The Social Contract for Housing, Ecuador

  Silvana Ruiz Pozo, 2009

  HIC

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, 2009

  NEF

• Triple crunch Joined-up solutions to financial chaos, oil decline and climate change to transform the economy

  November 2008

  NEF

• Creative Communities. People inventing sustainable ways of living.

  (ed.) Anna Meroni, 2007

• Fineurosol

  A project of European Label for solidarity finance. State of the art in several European contries and definition of a European label and indicators.

  December 2006

  Finansol

• An Overview of Social Capital: Towards an Understanding of the Normative Principles of Solidarity of Finance

  The search for a development approach centered on people’s freedom and people’s participation, this paper argues, can be aided by a study of social capital. Such a study can help explain how people can be mobilized to participate in producing a collective good through voluntary joint action and cooperation with other sectors of society. In other words, a study of social capital formation is essential in shaping a freedom-centered, participatory development perspective.

  Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr., February 2006

• Equity-driven RMFIs (Rural MicroFinance Institutions)

  An examination of rural entrepreneurs as shareholders of equity-driven RMFIs, motivated by profit sharing and access to credit.

  Hans Dieter, February 2006

  Universität zu Köln

• The medieval invention of emancipating credit

  XIV International Economic History Congress, Helsinki 2006

  Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, 2006

• Finance and Ethics: between vice and virtue

  Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21, 2005).

  Paul Dembinski, October 2005

• Best practices in sustainable finance

  A survey of the link betwwen Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the financial service sector in Canada and at the international level

  Coro Strandberg, June 2005

• The future of Socially Responsible Investment

  Sociallly responsible investment, a type of investment that tackles with sustainability issues, is growing. Will it be mainstream and have a direct impact on finance?

  Coro Strandberg, May 2005

• Social Performance Indicators Initiative - Phase 2. Audit of the social performance of microfinance institutions: the definition of a tool

  Presentation of the second phase of the Social Performance Indicators Initiative, aimed at defining a tool for auditing the social performance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs).

  October 2004

• Community Banking Partnership The joined-up solution for financial inclusion and community economic development

  New Economics Foundation., National Association of Credit Union Workers., Community Finance Solutions., & Lloyds TSB Group.

  2004

• History matters in microfinance

  This text shows that microfinance is not a poor solution for poor countries, that savings-driven microfinance institutions in cooperative or community ownership are equally feasible in rural and urban areas, and that if properly regulated and supervised, they have great potential in poverty alleviation and development, both in rural and urban areas.

  Hans Dieter, June 2003

  Universität zu Köln

• An interesting new conclusion relating to social capital

  Links between social capital and economic resources.

  Fernando Sunimal, January 2003

• Danish Experience in Wind Energy - Local Financing

  Working report for the WELFI project (Wind Energy Local Financing) coordinated by CLER (Comité de Liaison Energies Renouvelables), France with support from the EU SAVE Program.

  Gunnar Boye Olesen, Preben Maegaard, Jane Kruse, December 2002

• Twenty Five Years of Economic Initiatives for Grassroots Development - Hopes and Anxieties -

  Asian Regional Conference on “The Potential and Limitations of Economic Initiatives in Grassroots Development – Current Issues and Asian Experiences”,held in Rajendrapur, Bangladesh, November 2000

  March 2002

• A framework for regulating microfinance institutions: The experience of Ghana and of the Philippines

  World Bank, Financial Sector Development Department (October 2001) – Reflection on the microfinance regulation framework.

  Joselito Gallardo, January 2002

• Finance for local development: New solutions for public-private action

  This handbook, one of the outcomes of a project “Getting the Framework Right: Public Support Strategies and Measures for Local and Micro-finance” shows good practice internationally in public support for local and micro-finance; and how to develop and implement policy instruments to give effective support to local and micro-finance in one’s own territory.

  2001

  INAISE, NEF

• Social intermediation study field research guide: exploring the relationship between social capital and microfinance

  This document presents a guide for field survey research in social intermediation in order to explore the relation between social capital and microfinance.

  Teresa Cerveau, September 1999

One charter/manifesto

• Praia Manifesto In Favour of Inclusive, Resilient, Low Carbon, Sustainable Local Economic Development: Let’s Implement Social and Solidarity Economy and Finance (SSEF) Now!

  Praia, Cabo Verde, from 17th - 20th October, for the 4th World Forum of Local Economic Development (LED).

  October 2017

19 public contributions

• Paul Sinappan Memorial

  June 2021

  ASEC

• Honouring Bro Paul Sinnappan 1950 – 2021

  Denison Jayasooria, June 2021

  ASEC

• Remembering Paul Sinappan by KON ONN SEIN

  June 2021

  ASEC

• Tribute to the late PAUL SINAPPAN by Ms OOI KIAH HUI

  June 2021

  ASEC

• HONOURING PAUL SINAPPAN (1950-2021) – Activist for the poor & in building alternative economy pathway through cooperative movement.

  Denison Jayasooria, June 2021

  ASEC

• 12 measures for a socially useful financial system

  Four international Social Finance and Community Development Federations put out a call to G-20 Governments

  September 2009

  INAISE, FEBEA, NCRC

• Japan’s Lost Decades and a Women-led Socio-Solidarity Economy

  Contribution to Asian Solidarity Economy Forum 2009

  Yoko Kitazawa, April 2009

  PARC

• Measuring social performance of micro-finance institutions

  Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21, 2005).

  Cécile Lapenu, October 2005

• Social Performance Indicators initiative (SPI) - Questionnaire for MicroFinance Institutions (MFIs) v2.1

  This questionnaire on social performance is meant to bring additional information to financial assessments and to give a wider vision of MFIs performances.

  June 2005

• Operational Guide to the SPI Questionnaire

  The operational guide is designed as a companion manual to help MFIs and external reviewers wanting to complete the Social Performance Indicators initiative (SPI) questionnaire.

  June 2005

• Social Performance Indicators: an Overview

  Presentation on the Social Performance Indicators (SPI) made at the seminar: « Beyond growth worship: evaluation and indicators of real wealth » organized by Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy (WSSE) Indicators workshop and AlterUqam, Quebec at the 2005 World Social Forum.

  Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr., January 2005

• Social Capital in Finance of Solidarity

  Preparatory document for a debate on solidarity finance indicators (WSSE Solidarity Finance Workshop).

  Fernando Sunimal, December 2003

• International Finance and Solidarity: Towards a global banking network of solidarity

  Presentation of the concept of a global social finance network.

  Henri Rouillé d’Orfeuil, August 2002

• JP Worms’ Contribution on Social Capital

  Transcription of the contribution of Jean-Pierre Worms to the « Finance of solidarity and social links » workshop on Social Capital and Finance of Solidarity, organised in Dourdan, France, from July 2 to 5, 2002.

  jean-Pierre Worms, July 2002

• Social Finance and the Poor

  Preparatory contribution to the « Finance of solidarity and social links » workshop, Dourdan, (France), July 2002.

  Riza Primahendra, July 2002

• International meeting, (Geneva March, 2001): Exclusion by Finance and International Debt. Round-table I : Exclusion by the finance - micro-finance and international debt

  Report on the discussion about micro-finance: Exclusion by the finance and international debt that took place during the International meeting, Geneva March 30-31, 2001.

  Alain Simon, April 2001

• Financing for Development - Reinaldo Gonçalves, March 2001

  Contribution to the Sustainable Finances workshop on issue related to the functioning of international financial and monetary systems.

  Reinaldo Gonçalves, February 2001

• Finance of solidarity and social links, document for debate

  Is there any danger that microfinance institutions targetting poor and vulnerable lose it solidarity in the long-run ?

  Renée Chao Beroff, February 2001

• Launch text of the Alliance Solidarity Finance workshop: Solidarity finance and Social Ties – 15th January 2001

  Launch Text of the Solidarity Finance Workshop.

  January 2001

  CIDR

2 articles

• FEBEA conference in Barcelona: “Ethical banking is no longer a utopia”

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - June 2022

  Valorsocial, June 2022

  RIPESS Europe, FEBEA

• Banking co-ops run by Black women have a longtime legacy of helping people

  Caroline Shenaz Hossein, March 2021

  The Conversation

Other

• WSF III: Workshops and seminar on Solidarity Finance. Why not take a decisive step forward toward a global system of social finance?

  Text of the invitation to participate in the Solidarity Finance workshops and seminars at the III World Social Forum (Brazil, 23/28 January 2003).

  January 2003

Web sites :

• INAISE - Association Internationale des Investisseurs dans L’économie Sociale
• Réseau européen de la microfinance
• Forum International de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire 2011
• Pôle Microfinancement
• Le Portail de la Microfinance
• Foro hacia otra economia
• Nuestras Huellas Economia Social y Solidaria
• ASKI - Alalay Sa Kaunlaran, Inc.
• Banca Etica
• Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR)
• Comité d’Echanges, de Réflexion et d’Information sur les Systèmes d’Epargne-crédit (Cerise)
• Convergences
• Fédération des Cigales. Clubs d’Investisseurs pour une Gestion Alternative et Locale de l’Epargne Solidaire
• Fédération Européenne des Banques Ethiques et Alternatives (FEBEA)
• Finansol
• FINRURAL Asociacion de Instituciones financieras para el desarrollo rural (FINRURAL)
• Université Lumière Lyon 2 (LEFI)
• National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
• Schumacher Center for a New Economics : Curriculum for a new economics
• CERISES - Centre européen de ressources sur les initiatives solidaires et les entreprises sociales
• RECMA -Revue internationale de l’économie sociale
• Cofides - Coopérative Financière pour le Développement de l’Economie Solidaire Nord Sud
• AIR - L’Association pour l’Investissement Responsable
• Caisse d’Economie solidaire Desjardins
• Forum Pour l’Investissement Responsable - FIR
• France Active
• Sustainable Economies Law Center
• ACEESA - Associação Centro de Estudos de Economia Solidaria do Atlantico
• Centre d’Expertise et de Recherche en ESS de l’ESSCA
• Place Publique, le site des Initiatives citoyennes
• Observatoire européen de l’Economie sociale Pour la Solidarité
• Selba - Recursos para una vida simple, natural y perdurable
• Pangea sostenible/Sustainable Pangea
• FETS - Finançament étic i solidari
• Observatorio de las finanzas éticas (del FETS)
• SETEM Finanzas eticas
• Economistas sin fronteras
• Fiare Banca Etica
• Consorzio Etimos Italia
• VIC - Vivero de iniciativas ciudadanas
• Coopérative Régionale de Financement Solidaire
• RISQ - Réseau d’Investissement social du Québec
• Slow money
• Canadian Community Economic Development (CED) Network
• Community Work for Asia - CWA
• Desjardins Développement International
• Grupo de estudios sobre Economia Social y Solidaria - GEES
• KNFP Konsey Nasyonal Finansman Popilè - Conseil National de Financement Populaire
• Financité
• Altreconomia Rivista
• Mapeamento dos Fundos Solidarios
• Finanças Eticas
• Seccion de crédito de la cooperativa
• Finansol.it
• El salmon contracorriente
• TheSimpleDollar.com
• Social Performance Task Force
• Organic NZ
• Mediatico - Comprendre l’économie en mutation
• Change the rules
• L’escàner de les finances ètiques