BIBLICAL ECONOMICS...
From an integrated theology developed in TUL500, concepts and practice of economic discipling of individuals, family, community and national/ global levels are introduced.
1. Individual and family.
2. Cooperative Economics at community level and national cooperative movements
3. Microfinances at community levels and Microfinance Institutions (MFI)
4. Entrepreneurship
5. Urban & Global Economic Theories
COOPERATIVE PRACTICE
Students learn processes of capital formation through cooperative savings.
MICROFINANCES
Since the mid-1970's a global movement of capital formation through collective savings has developed. Capital access through microloans has now become mainstreamed into the Microfinance industry (MFI).
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
An introduction to the underlying qualities, infrastructure factors and essential processes for emergence of an entrepreneur in the slums and the application of similar principles to social entrepreneurship.
What are some of the structural requirements that facilitate entrepreneurship at slum levels?
What is social entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurs
URBAN & GLOBAL ECONOMIC THEORIES
Students will be able to describe aspects of global economics that affect the slums: the two circuits, trade between cities, conditions for achievement orientation, religious/psychological preconditions in cultures for economic take-off and the effects of these on lower circuit release of entrepreneurs
