ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the overall framework of the Integral Economy, incorporating its composite GENE-IUS. Through an inbuilt transformational process, Integral Economists, Government Policy Makers and Business Practitioners are called upon to engage in releasing the economic GENE-IUS of their organizations, communities and societies. An Integral Economy with a well-integrated South is deeply rooted in nature and community. The chapter deals with the principle of self-sufficiency, which is of utmost relevance for all other worlds; indeed it is their primary building block. By being designed as a Social Business, Grameen embodies a new microeconomic approach, geared to address burning social issues within society, by including an economic perspective. A core underlying assumption is that poverty is not created by the poor, but by the socio-economic structures within a society. With finance and enterprise as the main focus, the Western gene-ius revolves around the pragmatic and entrepreneurial, reinventing capacity of the West.
