This study questions efficiency-driven institutions in the financial sector during and after the financial crisis of 2008. Frustration about inadequately working financial institutions encouraged citizens to employ self-help initiatives reflected in the revival of, for example, financial cooperatives, sharing economies and community currencies. Some of these grassroots initiatives, such as financial self-help groups, are imported by migrants and refugees. Compared to the formal banking system, financial self-help groups claim effectivity and a human face instead of efficiency in operation and management. We look at financial self-help groups among Ethiopians and Ghanaians living in the Netherlands, placing these financial self-help groups w...
After the Netherlands in 2009 landed in the first of three recessions, the government, which took of...
Community banking initiatives are defined in this paper as membership based decentralized and self-h...
Small mutual funds once flourished in nineteenth century Europe and North America. They still abound...
This dissertation explores the value of financial self-help groups by looking at both sides of the c...
This paper provides insights into the operational features of community-based financing mechanisms l...
This paper provides insights into the operational features of community-based financing mechanisms. ...
This paper focuses on stokvels in contemporary South Africa. It examines the resilience and persiste...
Resilience is considered an important solution to problematic personal debt. European debt policy an...
The ‘global’ economic downturn and subsequent phase of austerity haveprompted an ongoing search for ...
In this contribution we intend to shed light on the social dimension of sustainability. Thereby, we ...
Chapter 7 of: Deliverable D1.1: Report on Institutions, Social Innovation & System Dynamics from the...
There is little doubt that the great financial crisis (GFC) that started in 2007 has substantially c...
Since 2010, Dutch local authorities (LGs) have been coping with fiscal stress and austerity. Restori...
International audienceFinancial inclusion is a policy priority in both developed and developing coun...
After the Netherlands in 2009 landed in the first of three recessions, the government, which took of...
After the Netherlands in 2009 landed in the first of three recessions, the government, which took of...
Community banking initiatives are defined in this paper as membership based decentralized and self-h...
Small mutual funds once flourished in nineteenth century Europe and North America. They still abound...
This dissertation explores the value of financial self-help groups by looking at both sides of the c...
This paper provides insights into the operational features of community-based financing mechanisms l...
This paper provides insights into the operational features of community-based financing mechanisms. ...
This paper focuses on stokvels in contemporary South Africa. It examines the resilience and persiste...
Resilience is considered an important solution to problematic personal debt. European debt policy an...
The ‘global’ economic downturn and subsequent phase of austerity haveprompted an ongoing search for ...
In this contribution we intend to shed light on the social dimension of sustainability. Thereby, we ...
Chapter 7 of: Deliverable D1.1: Report on Institutions, Social Innovation & System Dynamics from the...
There is little doubt that the great financial crisis (GFC) that started in 2007 has substantially c...
Since 2010, Dutch local authorities (LGs) have been coping with fiscal stress and austerity. Restori...
International audienceFinancial inclusion is a policy priority in both developed and developing coun...
After the Netherlands in 2009 landed in the first of three recessions, the government, which took of...
After the Netherlands in 2009 landed in the first of three recessions, the government, which took of...
Community banking initiatives are defined in this paper as membership based decentralized and self-h...
Small mutual funds once flourished in nineteenth century Europe and North America. They still abound...