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Resilience in a downturn the power of financial cooperatives
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This new report addresses the historical, statistical, conceptual, and policy aspects of financial cooperatives, focusing in particular on how cooperatives fare in times of crisis. Importantly, it ...
This new report addresses the historical, statistical, conceptual, and policy aspects of financial cooperatives, focusing in particular on how cooperatives fare in times of crisis. Importantly, it underscores that cooperativesÂ’ success during the global financial crisis can provide a credible alternative to the investment-owned banking system.
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Geneva : International Labour Office, 2013
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- xiii, 58 p. : ill
- ISBNs
- 9789221270317, 9221270319, 9221270300
- OCLC
- ocn854520704
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Intro -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Note about the author -- Introduction -- 1. The invention and evolution of financial cooperatives -- THE INVENTION OF FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES -- GROWTH OF A MOVEMENT -- FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES AND GOVERNMENTS -- GOOD IN A CRISIS? -- THE CURRENT SITUATION OF FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES -- CONCLUSION -- 2. The effects of the recent banking crisis on financial cooperatives -- PERFORMANCE OF COOPERATIVE BANKS BEFORE THE CRISIS -- PERFORMANCE OF CREDIT UNIONS BEFORE THE CRISIS -- COOPERATIVE BANKS DURING AND AFTER THE CRISIS -- CREDIT UNIONS DURING AND AFTER THE CRISIS -- CONCLUSION -- 3. The advantages and disadvantages of financial cooperatives -- OWNERSHIP -- CONTROL -- BENEFIT -- FEDERATION -- THE WIDER BENEFITS OF FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES -- CONCLUSION -- 4. Current issues and policy recommendations -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES ANDOTHER KINDS OF DEVELOPMENT -- Bibliography -- List of tables -- Table 1.1 Basic statistics on European cooperative banks, ordered by market share of deposits in each country (2010) -- Table 1.2: Credit union basic statistics, ordered by market penetration in each region for 2011 -- Table 2.1 European cooperative banks before the crisis: top 12 countries market share and EU totals -- Table 2.2 Credit unions before the crisis -- Table 2.3 European cooperative banks during and after the crisis: Top 12 countries by 2010 market share and EU totals -- Table 2.4 Effects of the banking crisis on European cooperative banks over four years -- Table 2.5 Credit unions during and after the crisis -- Table 3.1 Some European cooperative banks' market share of loans,ordered by market share of loans to SMEs -- List of figures -- Figure 1A European cooperative banks: Market share of deposits (%)
- Figure 1B European cooperative banks: Assets (Euros in billions) -- Figure 2 Credit unions during and after crisis: World totals in millions US