Economic Development
Microfinance for Wealthy Countries
The UK microcredit business Fair Finance is paving the road for the growth of microfinance in the developed world.
Tag: Europe
Environment
Trawling for Trash
An EU Fisheries Commission Project pays fisherman to remove plastic debris from the Mediterranean Sea.
Podcast
Social Entrepreneurship
Mode d’emploi pour réussir dans l’entrepreneuriat social
Amandine Barthelemy et Romain Slitine nous expliquent la teneur de l'étude et en dressent une grille de lecture sur l'entrepreneur lui-même, le projet et la méthode employée.
Civil Society
Big Society or Collective Impact?
How are the UK and US addressing the third sector’s next challenges, and where they are failing?
Socially Responsible Business
Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting
Integrated reporting—the combination of a company’s financial and nonfinancial performance in one document—is a crucial step to creating a more sustainable society.
Civil Society
It Takes Three to Tango
A European perspective on American civil society. A quick glance at the latest
thinking about not-for-profit management and philanthropy
reveals some profound differences between the ways American and
European practitioners look at today’s major societal challenges.
Economic Development
Welfare Works Better than Bootstraps
In Britain, the social safety net allows people who fall into poverty to pull themselves out. Americans who become poor are more likely to stay that way.
Podcast
Business
Fusions et Acquisitions dans l’Economie Sociale
Les Fusions et acquisitions se justifient-elles dans l'economie sociale ou sont elles le privilege de l'economie capitaliste?
Human Rights
Long Suffering Falls Short
Guilt might move people not to relieve suffering, but to exacerbate it by rationalizing that the victims somehow deserve their plight.
Government
Unlocking Future Savings
The English hope to sell social impact bonds (potentially paid for by the government) to raise money to fund new programs.