International Conference on Statistics of Cooperative – Measuring Cooperatives and Beyond

On 30th June the ILO will host an international conference on statistics of cooperatives, as part of the cooperative statistics component of the Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Knowledge Base project.

This conference will showcase the findings from the cooperative statistics component of the Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Knowledge Base project  funded by the Ministry of Employment and Labour (MoEL) of the Republic of Korea. National Researchers from five countries – Korea, Italy, Costa Rica, Türkiye and Tanzania, will present their analysis on the statistics available and used in each country related to cooperatives in comparison to the ILO’s Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives . Referring to the country findings, recommendations will be made to the guidelines and on the implementation of the guidelines.

The General Secretary of Euricse, Gianluca Salvatori, will be one of the speakers on the “Challenges and opportunities in developing statistics of cooperatives” discussion panel. Additionally, the senior researcher Chiara Carini will be presenting the Italian Case during the “Country case studies on cooperative statistics” panel.

Here is the interview with Ms. Chiara Carini, Senior Researcher at the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE), and Mr. Massimo Lori, Senior Researcher at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT).

Programme

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