Micro-enterprise as an approach for promoting economic development in social work: lessons from the Self-Employment Investment Demonstration

Microenterprise development offers the social work profession an exciting opportunity to transcend its traditional remedial & consumption-based social welfare approaches & to become engaged in a dynamic developmental process that both empowers & improves the material welfare of clients....

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Published in:International social work 1996-01, Vol.39 (1), p.69-82
Main Author: Raheim, Salome
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Development Programs
Economic development
Public assistance programs
Self Employment
Social policy
Social work
United States of America
Welfare Dependency
Welfare Policy
Welfare Recipients
Welfare Services
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Economic development
Public assistance programs
Self Employment
Social policy
Social work
United States of America
Welfare Dependency
Welfare Policy
Welfare Recipients
Welfare Services
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