Social enterprise for development: a new tool against poverty
Microfinance is a great tool for individual borrowers. But social enterprise can help strengthen whole communities. by Mariam Dao Gabala.
In her second blog for Canadian readers, Mariam Dao Gabala looks at the growing interest in social enterprise. Oikocredit and other development funds are looking to co-ops, small scale agriculture, fair trade organizations and renewable energy as a means to facilitate econonomic and social development in developing countries.
Read the blog here.