Themes: CED Around the World

For years now, politicians have been promising to give away power. There has been growing acceptance that the scale and complexity of our social challenges are so great that the…

A global energy war is underway. It is man versus nature, fossil fuel versus clean energy, the haves versus the have-nots, and, fundamentally, an extractive economy versus a regenerative economy….

Based on Ted Howard’s remarks to the recent Alternative Models of Ownership conference, the Democracy Collaborative has distilled the eight basic principles behind community wealth building—a transformative approach to local…

This handbook is the second in a series that aims to spur local investment in all 50 states. The goal is to provide readers with case studies and information relevant…

The purpose of this white paper is to present the current state of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the social finance sector in New York City, as well as…

Social enterprises are long-standing agents of inclusive growth and democratisation of the economic and social spheres, and they have proved resilient to economic adversity all the while addressing socio-economic challenges in…

The major international networks of Social and Solidarity Economy and Finance (SSEF) commit to an Inclusive, Resilient, Low Carbon and Sustainable Local Economic Development (LED). Meeting in Praia, Cabo Verde,…

The international co-operative movement has prioritized supportive legal frameworks as a key constituent of co-op growth (ICA, 2013), but there is not a robust literature on policy support for co-operatives….

The economic system in Britain, in its current guise, has a number of fundamental structural flaws that undermine economic strength and societal well-being. The predominance of private property ownership has…

The ‘Powerful Communities, Strong Economies’ report provides a framework that local authorities can use to commission for economic resilience and community organisations can use to evidence their local economic impact….

We must begin with some basic first principles. The form of political economy that I advocate is a pluralist, cooperative commonwealth based on the principle of economic democracy in service…

Owing to the constraints inherent in this study, we have opted for a literature review that is qualitative and confined to works published in English and French. It is also…