Public policies that promote adequate financing for SSE

Themes : Public policies and the solidarity economy

A key challenge for companies in the social and solidarity economy is to obtain adequate financing on acceptable terms to enable their development. Governments can facilitate access to capital by recognizing the uniqueness of these enterprises thus making it possible to earmark funds for them, by adopting fiscal measures to encourage private actors to invest in them, by contributing to investment funds targeted to them or by creating financial tools specifically for these types of enterprises or the organizations that support them.

3 publications | One proposal | 5 case studies | 14 Analyses/working papers/articles | A thesis | An article

3 publications

• Primer on Trade Agreements for Social Purchasing

  a CCEDNet Report

  Darcy Penner, David LePage, April 2015

• Alternative Budgets. Budgeting as if People Mattered.

  John Loxley, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., 2003

• Freedom and Security An Introduction to the Basic Income Debate

  Tony Fitzpatrick, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, September 1999

One proposal

• Proposals paper for the XXIst century: Fiscal Policy: Taxes, Distribution of National Income, and Social Security

  This proposals paper is a synthesis of the work by the « Fiscal Policy: Taxes, Distribution of National Income, and Social Security » Workshop.

  Ceci Vieira Juruá, November 2001

5 case studies

• The Lisbon Participatory Budget: results and perspectives on an experience in slow but continuous transformation

  Field Actions Science Report Special issue 11/2014. Stories of innovative Democracy at local level

  Giovanni Allegretti, 2014

• The Co-construction of Solidarity Finance in Quebec: a Systemic Approach

  Brief Reliess n°6

  October 2012

  RELIESS

• Community Economic Development Investment Funds (CEDIF)

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Edmonton Social Enterprise Fund

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Social Venture Fund

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

14 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Chapter 4. Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy through Public Policy

  October 2016

  UNRISD

• Social Economy. STUDY.

  Directorate General for Internal Policies. Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy of the European Parliament, May 2016

• Levers and obstacles to project funding in the third sector Portugal – UK – France - Algeria

  Final synthesis of the Diagnostic Assessments in the framework of the European Project SPOTS (Sustainable Projects for Organisations of the Third Sector)

  IFAID Aquitaine, January 2016

  IFAID Aquitaine

• Participatory Budgeting, Rural Public Services and Pilot Local Democracy Reform

  Field Actions Science Report Special issue 11/2014. Stories of innovative Democracy at local level

  Ming Zhuang, 2014

• Aid and support for the social economy in Poland. The case of social cooperatives

  4th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy University of Antwerp, 24-26 October 2013

  Karolina ajdzińska, October 2013

• Solidarity Finance and Public Policy: The Brazilian experience of community development banks

  NGLS Working Paper 2013 (Draft)

  Augusto Câmara Neiva, Juliana de Oliveira Barros Braz, Diogo Jamra Tsukumo, Joao Joaquim de Melo Neto Segundo, May 2013

• The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil

  World Development (2013), 2013 Elsevier Ltd., all rights reserved.

  Sonia Gonçalves, 2013

• FIESS - Solidarity finance

  An overview of solidarity finance in the context of a burgeoning financial market to meet social objectives, referred to today as « social finance » and « impact investment ».

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• Unlocking New Money for Social Enterprise Through Taxation Mechanisms - UK

  This document demonstrate that taxation relief for investors in social enterprises is a key means of new attracting inward investment into the UK’s social enterprise movement.

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• A technical guide to financing new employee mutuals - UK

  This guide identifies the resource requirements of new mutuals, provides a high level introduction into how and from which sources these investment requirements might be met; and identifies some of the implications of this analysis for potential and existing spin-outs of the public sector.

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• Participatory Budgeting: From Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S.

  Mike Mensner, Juscha Robinson, September 2010

• Financing the Social Economy in Québec. A Work in Progress.

  Marguerite Mendell, 2009

• The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend: An Experiment in Wealth Distribution

  Scott Goldsmith, 2002

• Finance for local development: New solutions for public-private action

  This handbook, one of the outcomes of a project “Getting the Framework Right: Public Support Strategies and Measures for Local and Micro-finance” shows good practice internationally in public support for local and micro-finance; and how to develop and implement policy instruments to give effective support to local and micro-finance in one’s own territory.

  2001

  INAISE, NEF, Fondazione Choros, Evers&jung

A thesis

• Reducing Financing Costs for Local Communities’ Welfare. An analysis of the Swedish local government funding agency Kommuninvest from the perspective of the social and public economy.

  Master in social economics cooperatives and non-profit organiisationsIONS, Universitat Valencia

  Esther M. Schmitt, September 2015

An article

• Meet the Citizens Who Helped Decide Their City’s Budget—and Got Better Buses, Benches, and Crosswalks

  Article of Yes!Magazine May 20, 2016

  Ken Otterbourg, May 2016

  Yes! Magazine