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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791864203321

Titolo

Cooperating out of poverty [[electronic resource] ] : the renaissance of the African cooperative movement / / Patrick Develtere, Ignace Pollet & Fredrick Wanyama (eds.) ; International Labour Office, World Bank Institute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dar es Salaam, : ILO, 2008

ISBN

92-2-120723-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DevelterePatrick

PolletIgnace

WanyamaFredrick

Disciplina

334.096

Soggetti

Cooperative societies - Africa - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs & Frannie A. Léautier -- Introduction / Patrick Develtere, Ignace Pollet & Fredrick O. Wanyama  Executive Summary -- Part One: Cooperatives on the African continent -- Chapter 1: Cooperative development in Africa up to the 1990s / Patrick Develtere -- Chapter 2: Renaissance of African cooperatives in the 21st century: lessons from the field / Patrick Develtere & Ignace Pollet -- Part Two: Cooperatives in 11 African countries -- Chapter 3: The qualitative and quantitative growth  of the cooperative movement in Kenya / Fredrick O. Wanyama -- Chapter 4: Growth without structures: the cooperative  movement in Ethiopia / Teigist Lemma -- Chapter 5: Uganda: starting all over again / Herment A. Mrema -- Chapter 6: The cooperative sector in Ghana: small and big business / Anthony K. Tsekpo -- Chapter 7: Political and genuine cooperatives in Enugu State, Nigeria / Anselm Enete -- Chapter 8: Bad memories, good prospects: cooperatives in Niger / Sanda Maman Sani -- Chapter 9: The Egyptian cooperative movement: between  State and Market / Mohamed H. Abdel Aal -- Chapter 10: Surviving on the islands: cooperatives in Cape Verde / João Gomes Mendonça --Chapter 11: Jump-starting the Rwandan cooperative movement / Jean Damascène Nyamwasa -- Chapter 12: Cooperatives in South Africa: a movement (re-)emerging /



Jan Theron -- Chapter 13: The Senegalese cooperative movement: embedded  in the social Economy / Abdou Salam Fall -- Chapter 14: The invisible, but resilient African cooperatives: some concluding remarks / Fredrick O. Wanyama.

Sommario/riassunto

Traces the historical path of cooperatives and trends since the 1990s. Gives examples from eleven countries in Africa of successful, genuine and economically viable cooperatives, and how they create economic opportunities and a basic level of social protection and security, and provide their members with voice and representation.