03971oam 2200685I 450 991046256390332120200520144314.01-136-25359-90-203-10534-610.4324/9780203105344 (CKB)2670000000357851(EBL)1186408(SSID)ssj0000873481(PQKBManifestationID)12439475(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873481(PQKBWorkID)10877961(PQKB)10764944(MiAaPQ)EBC1186408(Au-PeEL)EBL1186408(CaPaEBR)ebr10699387(CaONFJC)MIL487092(OCoLC)843642540(OCoLC)842882018(EXLCZ)99267000000035785120180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFinancial cooperatives and local development /edited by Silvio Goglio and Yiorgos AlexopoulosNew York, N.Y. :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (486 p.)Routledge Studies in Development Economics ;98Description based upon print version of record.1-138-21534-1 0-415-69837-5 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction: cooperative finance and sustainable local development; PART I Stakeholder-oriented versus profit-maximizing banks; 1 Cooperative banking: a Minskyan perspective; 2 Governance and performance: reassessing the pre-crisis situation of European banks; 3 Competition and market power within the Italian banking system; 4 Cooperative capital: why our world needs it; PART II From cooperative banks to local societies5 The case for proactive cooperative banks and local development: innovation, growth, and community building in Almería, Spain6 Cooperative banks and community development in Japan; 7 Homo dictyous transforms homo oeconomicus: the social network culture of Hellenic cooperative banking in Crete; 8 Innovative approaches to generating and using cooperative capital: observations from France and Germany; PART III Microfinance and local development; 9 Re-discovering a paradigm: the promotion of savings by credit unions within the UK policy context of asset-based welfare10 Microfinance and poverty reduction in Bangladesh: challenges and opportunities11 Microcredit: a model for activating poverty zones in Mexico; Conclusions: a tale of two models; IndexThis book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and rational expectations, but has also generated a great deal of disillusionment with the banking system and underlined the importance of a healthy society for the welfare of the individual. Consequently, new and innovative ways of providing finance are needed, especially for strengthening the developmenRoutledge studies in development economics ;98.Financial institutionsBanks and bankingSustainable developmentElectronic books.Financial institutions.Banks and banking.Sustainable development.334/.2Alexopoulos Yiorgos933363Goglio Silvio1948-118589MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462563903321Financial cooperatives and local development2101216UNINA