Resources on cooperative, social and solidarity economy

  1. Resilience in a Downturn: The power of financial cooperatives

    20 March 2013

    This report reviews the performance of financial cooperatives, looking in particular at the aftermath of the 2007-2008 crisis and the continuing long austerity period. It explains why financial cooperatives have proven to be more resilient pointing to the specificities of the cooperative model of enterprise.

  2. Financial Education - Cambodia - Trainer’s manual

    01 January 2008

    This guide primarily targets women, who usually manage household money in Cambodia. The training makes them more informed and empowered financial decision-makers, able to set financial targets and reach them. This helps them to improve their living conditions, send their children to school and enjoy rewarding lives.

  3. Social Finance Working Paper #12: Using credit unions as conduits for micro-enterprise lending

    01 October 1995

    Latin American insights

  4. Social Finance Working Paper #11: On the theory of credit cooperatives: equity and onlending in a multi-tier system

    01 August 1995

    A concept paper

  5. Social Finance Working Paper #10: Expansion of rural financial services

    01 June 1995

    The development of a community-based rural credit union network in the Dominican Republic (1984-1993)

  6. Social Finance Working Paper #9: Monitoring guidelines for semi-formal financial institutions active in small enterprise finance

    01 April 1995