Key
Analysis
Rural
Co-operatives and Sustainable Development
by Michael Gertler
Environmental Resource Management
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Rediscovering
the Cooperative Advantage: Poverty Reduction Through Self-Help
Cooperative Branch, International Labor Office
By, Johnston Birchall
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here to read.
Observations
and Lessons Learned From the CHF Governance Studies
by John Oliver R. Ortega, Program Assistant, CHF-Philippines
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here to read.
Cooperatives
and the Millennium Development Goals
This
book higlights the significant contributions that the cooperative model
can make to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The book shows
that cooperatives are thriving enterprises which contribute to reducing
poverty, promoting gender equality, providing health care services, tackling
the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and ensuring environmental sustainability. Johnston
Birchall was commissioned to write this book by the International Labor
Office (ILO) and COPAC.
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IFAD
Completion Evaluation Report
Republic of Armenia, North West Agricultural Services Project
In this document, the evaluators found that "IFAD was underperforming"
with two thirds of projects rated as satisfactory and half suffering major
implementation problems. A notable example of good performance is the
Agriculture Cooperative Bank of Amenia (ACBA). "After initial start-up
problems, ACBA is now the third largest (and only cooperative) bank in
the country, plus the main lender in rural areas - where previously the
banking sector had focused on low risk, high return borrowers from the
main city." A more detailed analysis of ACBA is on pages 14 to 19.
December 2001
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IFPRI
GROUP-BASED FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE RURAL POOR IN BANGLADESH AN
INSTITUTIONAL- AND HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL ANALYSIS
By Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Akhter J. Ahmed, and Shahidur Rashid
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The Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan Cooperative Sector Agenda for Renewal and Growth
March 1999
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here for word file
The
Future of U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives: A Neo-Institutional Approach
By Michael Cook
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Institutions,
Contracts, and Organizations Perspectives from New Insitutional Economics
By Claude Menard
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Beginning
to Inform, The Theory of the Cooperative Firm: Emergence of the New Generation
Cooperative
By Micheal L. Cook & Constantine Iliopoulos
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Promotion of
Cooperatives
Information on changing operating environments, countries in trasition,
the potential of cooperatives, social services, role of coops in social
and civil society, prerequisites for success, coop legislation, support
services, structural change,and international cooperation.
International Labour Organization
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc89/rep-v-1.htm
Bridging the
Gap: Cooperative Development Organizations
and Private and Voluntary Organizations in Microfinance
USAID's Office of Private and Volunary Cooperation study of microfinance
activities of CDOs and PVOs.
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Cooperatives
in the Context of Globalization and Liberalization
by Michael Cracknell
FAO Cooperatives Consultant
http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0001.htm
Evolution of
Cooperative Thought, Theory and Purpose
By Randall E. Torgerson, Bruce J. Reynolds and Thomas W. Gray, January
1997
Presentation: Conference on "Cooperatives: Their Importance in the
Future of the Food and Agricultural System," Food and Agricultural
Marketing Consortium, Las Vegas, NV, January 16-17, 1997.
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/info/torg.html
Promotion of
cooperatives
Report V(2), ILO, Geneva, February 2001, International Labour Conference
(89 th Session: 2001)
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc90/rep-iv-2b.htm
The Role of
Cooperatives in Providing Local Answers to Globalization
by Levin, Mark. , ILO Cooperative Branch, Geneva. San José, Costa
Rica, May 2001 Keynote Speech to the 10th National Cooperative Congress.
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Supportive
Environment for Cooperatives: A Stakeholder Dialogue on Definitions, Prerequisites
and Process of Creation
15-17 May 2002, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Can Cooperatives
make a difference?
COPAC Open Forum: Decent Work: (28 June 2000, Geneva, Switzerland).
Web page includes agenda, abstracts and texts of presentations and synopsis
of proceedings:
http://www.copacgva.org/fora/geneva2000.htm
The Contribution
of Cooperatives to the Implementation of the World Summit for Social Development
Declaration and Programme of Action :
Conference Room Paper for the First Session of the Preparatory Committee
for the Special Session of the General Assembly on the Implementation
of the Outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and Further
Initiatives, New York, 17-28 May 1999.(E) COPAC Report:
http://www.copacgva.org/wssd99.htm
Cooperative
Conversion and Restructuring in Theory and Practice
USDA, RBS Research Report 185, January 2002
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file.
Financial Management
and Ratio Analysis for Cooperative Enterprise
USDA, RBS Research Report 175
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/rr175.pdf
Excerpts from
Sample Co-op Feasibility Studies
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/manual/app_f.html
Cooperative
Feasibility Study Guide
The components of a well-developed feasibility study.
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Guidelines
for Conducting Surveys
A comprehensive overview on how to design and conduct a survey.
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/manual/app_e.html
Assessing Project
Feasibility
How to assess the feasibility of an expansion or relocation project—primarily
geared toward existing food co-ops.
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/info/coopgro/pre2001/assess.html
Cooperatives
and Cooperative banks, their contribution to economic and rural development
carried out by RIAS / Rabobank
people who are interested can
send an e-mail to: RIAS@RN.Rabobank.nl
Mention the number of publications you would like to receive (at the price
of 10 Euro per publication including world-wide postage/shipping costs)
and the address the publications should be sent to.
Cooperative
Approach to Poverty Reduction
by Thomas Carter
Presentation at Sustainable
Cooperation: Best Practices in International Co-Operative Development
conference, October 8-9, 2003, at http://www.bestpractices.coop/.
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The
Promise of Economic Democracy in Practice: The Role of Cooperatives in
Sustainable and Equitable Community Development
by Aaron
G. Lehmer
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here to read thesis.
Co-operatives
and development co-operation Presentation
HIVA-study, sponsored by Cera-foundation. By Patrick Develtere
and Ignace Pollet.
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5
Years of Working with the Rural Poor
Punjab Rural Support Program, SAILCOT
in Pakistan
1998-2003
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Criticizing the Third Co-operative
Principal (1997)
The third ICA ( the International Cooperative Alliance) principle is referring
to the core of the understanding of what is a cooperative. This paper
analyses and criticize this principle. It is a first one of three papers
dealing this issue.
Oct, 1997 (Source: Co-op Dialogue, Vol.7, No.2, May-Aug. 1997, pp.24-26)
by Zvi Galor
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to read.
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