, their composition, the growth of their volunteers and their relations with public authorities more competitive. Two … differences remain however: a higher rate of membership and a more important weight of the foundations in Germany …

. All three discuss the specific contributions of cooperatives in the context of organizational plurality. Under a … Borzaga, Depedri and Tortia discuss theories able to properly analyze the specific role of cooperatives and social enterprises … cooperatives concerning financial inclusion. …

have benefited from agrarian reform (termed “assentamentos” i.e. homesteads) through the creation of farming cooperatives … oversee the project, providing farm equipment rentals needed for the crops as well as paying the salaries for two agronomic …

growth over the period 1981-2005. The econometric relationships derived in this paper suggest that future reductions in CO2 …

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no "one way" recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …

We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … maintenance, that participate to increase agents' life expectancy and to sustain growth in the long term. We show that global …

uncertainty on capital inflows in such an economy generates long-term (expected) growth while the deterministic counterpart does … not. In this framework, long-term growth is entirely driven by precautionary savings. In particular, we show that the … asymptotic growth rate of the expected capital stock is an increasing function of both the risk parameter and the Arrow …