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Unlocking the potential of the social economy for EU growth
On November 17th-18th, Italy launches a participatory and policy-oriented conference on Social Economy.
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WCM | Exploring the co-operative economy, Report 2013
Cape Town, November 2013. The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) - with the scientific and technical support of Euricse - launches the 2013 report of its global statistical project: The World Co-operative Monitor. In this new edition the Report have been enriched with a new feature: a ranking list based on ratio turnover on the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.
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JEOD special issue on cooperative banks
Are cooperative banks at a turning point? Many changes that have occurred in the last years in the economic and social framework make this question quite actual.
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Top 300 co-operatives are worth over 2 trillion
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From Co-operative News article released on 05 November 2013
The world’s top 300 co-operatives have continued to grow, achieving an overall turnover of USD $2,097 billion in 2011. The results of the survey confirm an increase from 2010, when the world’s top 300 co-operatives, distributed in 24 countries, had a turnover of USD $1,975 billion.
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Success for the online campaign stories.coop
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October 10, 2013
A new site for promoting the database, with innovations including journalistic reports, analyses and case studies
Offical launch will be at the International conference in Cape Town
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Co-operatives fly through financial crisis, turnover reaches USD 2 trillion
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Manchester, October 31st 2012
World Co-operative Monitor launched in Manchester
The global co-operative sector defied a general business trend and thrived trhough the heights of the Global Financial Crisis, according to a new scientific report.
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World Co-operative Monitor: Explorative report 2012
The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) - with the scientific and technical support of Euricse - launched a new project: The World Co-operative Monitor.
Thanks to the support of Crédit Coopératif, the Desjardins Group, the Indian Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), Organização das Cooperativas Brasileiras (OCB), and The Co-operative Group, this project aims to monitor and demonstrate the economic and social impact of the largest cooperative and mutual organizations worldwide.
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European Commissioner Barnier responds to Euricse’s appeal for greater attention toward cooperative banks
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Trento, Sepember 26 2012
Good news for European cooperative banking. After the European Banking Authority, now the European Commission, represented by the Commissioner responsible for internal market and services, Michel Barnier, has also responded positively to the appeal launched by Euricse in March, demanding that EU institutions pay more attention to local and cooperative banks.
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Commissioner Michel Barnier’s reply to the appeal on the importance of cooperative banks for Europe’s economic recovery and growth
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comment by Giovanni Ferri (University of Bari)
Commissioner Michel Barnier replied in lieu of President Manuel Barroso to the Appeal in favour of cooperative banks that was sent last spring. The Appeal was endorsed by a large number of scholars from many countries. Overall, 177 scholars from 20 countries signed the Appeal: Austria (2 scholars), Belgium (2), Canada (4), Croatia (1), Czech Republic (1), Finland (4), France (2), Germany (3), Greece (2), Israel (1), Italy (53), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Senegal (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (76), Sweden (2), UK (9), Uruguay (1), USA (3).
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Cooperatives and s.p.a. corporations in Trentino compared: value added and income generated from 2006-2010
In recent years various scholars and representatives of important institutions have sustained that cooperatives have responded better to the crisis than other forms of enterprises. The resiliency of the cooperative model has been interpreted as the consequence of their different nature, in particular their orientation towards the satisfaction of a need rather than the distribution of profits. This particularity, it is suggested, pushes cooperatives to maintain production levels even under conditions of reduced or negative revenue.
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Promoting the understanding of cooperatives for a better world. Conference draws to a close
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Venice, March 19 2012
Final statement from Carlo Borzaga, president of Euricse, sums up the two days
The conference “Promoting the understanding of cooperatives for a better world” organized by Euricse, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) and the Alliance of Italian Cooperatives for the UN International Year of Cooperatives closed on Friday in Venice.
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