As the governance of financial institutions is becoming an important issue, there are many papers empirically investigating the governance issues of banks, which are stock companies. However, cooperative structured financial institutions (co-ops), which have a unique governance structure...

Cooperative model in micro-lending is proving to be very successful as the co-operative institutions utilize the local economic resources and are very instrumental in mobilizing micro-savings and micro-lending. This paper discusses the various models of microfinance lending in general and the...

India is basically an agrarian economy in which around 70% of its population is still residing in rural area. Agriculture sector contributes approx.15.4 percent to the GDP of India, so due to this the development of Agriculture sector is essential. Cooperatives are playing significant role in...