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Show filtersHow should co-operative banks deal with the negative rates dilemma?
A small German co-operative bank, Raiffeisenbank Gmund, has introduced a negative interest rate on deposits. Well,…
Social innovation and the social and solidarity economy
Simel Esim and Waltteri Katajamaki from the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Cooperatives Unit look at the importance…
Nepal celebrates National Co-operative Day
On 2 April Nepal celebrated its annual National Co-operative Day, recognising the three million people affiliated…
A co-operative vision for public services
How can we build an economy for people, not profit? It can be done from the…
When big co-ops fail
The international co-operative movement has seen a series of catastrophic failures of large scale co-operatives in…
List of top 100 co-ops in USA released
The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) in America has released its annual NCB Co-op 100 list. The…
Member economic participation: turning co-operative supporters into co-operative investors
The path to member economic participation, one of the core co-operative principles, never did run smooth.…
The Marcora Law: an effective tool of active employment policy
Camillo De Berardinis, managing director of CFI, (Cooperazione Finanza Impresa – Cooperation Finance Enterprise), looks at how the Marcora…
What lessons can the UK learn from Germany’s co-operative banking sector?
Co-operative banks make up about two thirds of all German retail banks, and have a broad…
Is there an ideal size for a co-op business?
The co-operative brand and model of doing business has taken a bashing in the public and…
