LEADER 03973oam 2200685I 450 001 9910786741303321 005 20230803030049.0 010 $a1-136-25359-9 010 $a0-203-10534-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203105344 035 $a(CKB)2670000000357851 035 $a(EBL)1186408 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873481 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12439475 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873481 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10877961 035 $a(PQKB)10764944 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1186408 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1186408 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10699387 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL487092 035 $a(OCoLC)843642540 035 $a(OCoLC)842882018 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134783 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000357851 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFinancial cooperatives and local development /$fedited by Silvio Goglio and Yiorgos Alexopoulos 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (486 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Development Economics ;$v98 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-21534-1 311 $a0-415-69837-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; 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 societies 327 $a5 The case for proactive cooperative banks and local development: innovation, growth, and community building in Almeri?a, 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 welfare 327 $a10 Microfinance and poverty reduction in Bangladesh: challenges and opportunities11 Microcredit: a model for activating poverty zones in Mexico; Conclusions: a tale of two models; Index 330 $aThis book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and rational expectations, but has also generated a great deal of disillusionment with the banking system and underlined the importance of a healthy society for the welfare of the individual. Consequently, new and innovative ways of providing finance are needed, especially for strengthening the developmen 410 0$aRoutledge studies in development economics ;$v98. 606 $aFinancial institutions 606 $aBanks and banking 606 $aSustainable development 615 0$aFinancial institutions. 615 0$aBanks and banking. 615 0$aSustainable development. 676 $a334/.2 701 $aAlexopoulos$b Yiorgos$01493340 701 $aGoglio$b Silvio$f1948-$0118589 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786741303321 996 $aFinancial cooperatives and local development$93716274 997 $aUNINA