Category - oikocredit

Time to invest practically in social change

Patrick Hynes — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:30:17 +0100

The current global financial crisis is not a counsel of despair, says Patrick Hynes. It is an opportunity to review our priorities and invest practically for change through agencies like Oikocredit.

Social investors gather to defy the global credit crunch

agency reporter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:31:26 +0100

Despite the global credit crunch, social entrepreneurs are continuing to invest in hope. Oikocredit – one of the leading financiers of microfinance – has decided to pay a dividend of 2% to its members for the 15th year in a row.

Tackling the 'credit crunch' justly

Patrick Hynes — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:28:31 +0000

Everyone is talking about the 'credit crunch'. Patrick Hynes, from Oikocredit, reflects on how access to fair finance continues to be a problem for people who are poor, and proposes a simple solution.

We can use the market to tackle poverty, says Nobel Prize winner

staff writers — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:01:01 +0000

Harnessing the power of the market to help solve the problems of global poverty, hunger and inequality is both possible and necessary, a Nobel Peace Prize winner told an invited audience of specialists in London on Thursday night.

Live simply and invest differently, says new UK partnership

staff writers — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:53:53 +0000

The UK wing of the global social investment initiative Oikocredit has teamed up with the Livesimply campaign to promote a shared vision for social justice. Oikocredit provides vital loans to creative but impoverished communities.

Oikocredit is a real investment in hope

Press Office — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:16:32 +0000

The think-tank Ekklesia, which examines religion in public life and promotes constructive alternatives within the social, political and economic realm, has said that the Oikocredit global social in

UK boost for Oikocredit global social investment initiative

staff writers — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:59:44 +0000

Oikocredit, a global member-based social investment co-operative which makes small loans to hundreds of vital development projects, has expressed hope that it will "really take off" in the UK after receiving its first major contribution.

A little local money goes a global way

Simon Barrow — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:38:03 +0000

A long-standing practical scheme for financially backing community initiatives and economic development among those on the margins of the global system is being promoted in Britain.