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

Historically, the profession of social work has been concerned with promoting human capital formation through building interpersonal skills and enhancing family and community strengths. However, this has not been a dominant activity in social work. Generally, the profession has fostered a remedial and maintenance-oriented approach to social welfare. Although social work has campaigned to maintain traditional social welfare policies and programmes, it is being increasingly recognized that governments will not restore bugetary reductions and that consumption-based social services will face greater pressure in the future. In view of this trend, new ideas which transcend traditional approaches are urgently needed. The writings of Sherraden (1991) and Midgley (1995) offer opportunities