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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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Promoting the understanding of cooperatives for a better world
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Venice, March 16 2012
First statements from keynote speakers on the economic importance of the cooperative model
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More attention to cooperative and local banks is essential to Europe’s economic recovery
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Venice, March 16 2012
An appeal presented in Venice during an international conference on cooperatives asks the European Union to focus on funding the real economy in order to overcome the economic crisis
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New responses to the global crisis from the cooperative movement
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Trento, March 6, 2012
Cooperatives' potential role in the reform of the dominant economic model to be discussed at a conference in Venice, 15-16 March, 2012
What effects will the financial crisis have? Will Europe be able to move beyond the negative economic trends and radically transform its social and economic development model? And what contribution can cooperative enterprises and the social economy in general bring to the new geopolitical context?
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