Lack of credit for farming is one of the main obstacles that poor Thai farmers face. Most agricultural credits from commercial banks are given to large agricultural businesses thus leaving out poor farmers who consequently have to borrow from informal sources with high interest rates. Read More
This paper brings together the first results of research aimed at studying the start-up and enterprise processes of worker-recovered enterprises in Italy. The results, obtained through the administration of an online questionnaire, delve into the governance, resources and strategies used by workers in recovering/starting their own cooperative enterprise in Italy. Read More
Starting from a reconstruction of the main limits of the current local welfare systems, the paper examines in depth the elements underlying a different model of territorial healthcare, based on the integration between social and healthcare fields and on the participation of territorial communities in the definition of policies and services. Read More
The Mondragon Corporation is an umbrella organisation for nearly 100 separate self-governing worker cooperatives that together employ over 81,000 workers (2019). Being mainly located in the Spanish Basque region, the group’s cooperatives operate throughout the world, with 141 production plants in 37 countries, commercial businesses in 53, and sales in… Read More
Anecdotal evidence describes how co-operatives are facing a financial crunch, particularly since the economic crash of 2008. This paper aims to analyse the composition of the capital of co-operatives. Read More
The paper addresses the issue of home care support for the frail elderly whose needs are not adequately addressed in formal provision and often not even within the family. Read More
The creation of cooperative forms of organisations and a proper structuring of them is required for achieving this objective of reaching out to the local community. This paper is an attempt to analyse the structure and functioning of credit cooperatives in India and to assess to what extent the same is conducive for connecting the local societies. Read More
The paper analyzes how cultural heritage and, more specifically, historical-archaeological heritage can be a powerful driver of local development. Read More
The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of different forms of enterprise in the Trentino economic system, and then to provide a comparative assessment, first with the neighboring province of Bolzano and, later, with the entire Italian economy. Read More
In the essay, after identifying the reasons explaining the growth of the third sector, its economic dimension is reconstructed and whether and to what extent the reform has captured its specificities and succeeded in laying the groundwork for its further strengthening is analyzed. Read More
This paper supports the thesis of inadequacy of the homo oeconomicus model, providing results of a field experiment conducted in the city of Naples (Italy) on the practice of “suspended coffee” (caffè sospeso). Read More
This paper addresses the real effects of collective capital on productivity using a large panel of Italian worker and social cooperatives. Read More