Popular Economy in Santiago de Chile: State of Affairs and Challenges

Bauwens, Thomas; Lemaître, Andreia

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.015

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“…SMEs in developing countries are often not growth-oriented (Bauwens & Lemaître, 2014). They focus mainly on survival, providing a relatively large number of employees with a subsistence income (Berner, Gomez, & Knorringa, 2012;Hillenkamp, Lapeyre, Lemaître, 2013).…”

Section: The Enterprise Landscapesmentioning

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How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal

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a b s t r a c tThis paper investigates to what extent and how micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries are adapting to climate risks. We use a questionnaire survey to collect data from 325 SMEs in the semi-arid regions of Kenya and Senegal and analyze this information to estimate the quality of current adaptation measures, distinguishing between sustainable and unsustainable adaptation. We then study the link between these current adaptation practices and adaptation planning for future climate change. We find that financial barriers are a key reason why firms resort to unsustainable adaptation, while general business support, access to information technology and adaptation assistance encourages sustainable adaptation responses. Engaging in adaptation today also increases the likelihood that a firm is preparing for future climate change. The finding lends support to the strategy of many development agencies who use adaptation to current climate variability as a way of building resilience to future climate change. There is a clear role for public policy in facilitating good adaptation. The ability of firms to respond to climate risks depends in no small measure on factors such as business environment that can be shaped through policy intervention.

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Section: The Enterprise Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal

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“…Associated entities, who become full actors in the process of allocating financial services, transform the social value of the resource, including through an inclusive incremental learning process (Dedeurwaerdere, 2009). This appropriation of economic activities by civil society is often seen as an essential component of the social economy (Bauwens & Lemaître, 2014; Laville & Nyssens, 2001); it opens up the possibility of reexamining financial services and financial inclusion (Servet, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Case Study of Microfinance and Community Development Banks in Brazil

Hudon

Meyer

2016

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Inclusive financial sectors are essential to poverty alleviation. While microcredit can be governed as a private good, self-managed civil society organizations propose an alternative way of managing financial services. Brazil’s Community Development Banks (CDBs) are growing and dynamic manifestations of these nonprofit organizations. Based on field research in Brazil, this article uses Elinor Ostrom’s design principles of successful self-governing common-pool resource organizations to analyze CDBs’ microcredit system. Our results suggest that private goods could be altered when they are governed by community self-managed enterprises. They become hybrid goods as they mix the characteristics of private and common goods. This change is facilitated by specific organizational arrangements such as self-governance that emerge from grassroots dynamics and the creation of collective-choice arenas. These arrangements help strengthen the inclusion properties of nonprofit microcredit services.

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“…Gui () respectively calls the beneficiaries of these two rights the ‘dominant category’ and the ‘beneficiary category’. The residual control by the dominant category refers to the ultimate decision‐making power which is not shared with other stakeholders according to the statutes or by contract (Bauwens and Lemaître ). As for the beneficiary category, it refers to the category owning the rights to the residual surplus of an enterprise.…”

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confidence: 99%