This article examines the role of social enterprises in providing fair services to vulnerable
consumers, focusing on the vulnerability of low-income consumers to high-cost exploitative …

Sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) is an important area that focuses on taking
into consideration environment, social and governance (ESG) criteria when making …

Developmental venture capital is the financing of businesses with equity and near-equity in
order to achieve both social and financial objectives. The social returns include economic …

Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are an integral component of US
community economic development policy. These organizations differ in structure and client …

The US federal government has increasingly relied on tax incentives to leverage private
investment to spur economic redevelopment in poor communities. One such popular …

Completely revised, this new edition presents a well-balanced set of economic development
financing tools and techniques focused on our current times of economic austerity. While …

Despite the consensus in entrepreneurship literature on the significant contribution of
technology business incubation to the realisation of technology entrepreneurship, the range …

In his argument for a rereading of opportunity hoarding and related policy prescriptions,
David Imbroscio provides evidence for the misdiagnosis of elements of the problem vis-à-vis …

The development of high growth New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) in Silicon Valley,
Israel, Bangalore and UK is attributed to Venture Capital. Evidence of Nigeria focused or …

Despite federal and state efforts to ensure equal access to credit, ethnic disparities in
financial capital remain. Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) represent …