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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Community cooperatives"”.
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The Community Retrofit Trust: Incentivizing Deep Energy Retrofits in Massachusetts' Triple Deckers
… project proposes a practical framework for a “Community Retrofit Trust” which uses systems of distributed energy savings, community ownership of DER assets, and cooperative governance to ensure tenants, building owners, and neighbors in environmental justice communities share benefits from DERs …
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Linking inclusive green growth and the informal economy : relationship between small-scale farming and informal vending in South Africa
… with family-operated farms or loosely organized community cooperatives in neighboring towns. The results highlight examples of symbiotic linkages in this overlooked local food system that can increase employment opportunities and lower growth barriers for emergent farmers, who are important …
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Candles, Co-Ops and Credit Funds: Exploring the Matrix of Grassroots Development Strategies in a Dominican Batey
… the perspective of a largely immigrant Haitian community in the Dominican Republic and their small-scale development strategies via transborder citizen-to-citizen networks. The community of Batey Libertad partners with U.S. student groups throughout the year to support some of its development …
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Three essays on financial inclusion in Africa and the Middle East
… in rural areas. Their presence has evolved into community cooperatives that has a wider impact on their socio-economic wellbeing. ROSCAs and other forms of traditional institutions are significant devices for the poor in their attempts to diffuse the impact of shocks as well as building trust and …