Se analiza el financiamiento otorgado por las instituciones públicas municipales y regionales a las microempresas y empresas de la economía solidaria del Estado Zulia, Venezuela. Con información suministrada de las instituciones incluidas en el estudio (y Corpozulia), se examinan las...

The aim of this paper is to understand the functioning and the scope of self-help groups in the informal settlements of urban areas as a means of generating income for poor households. The paper uses a unique dataset collected by the author in 1999 surveying all individual group members from...

The Consumer Co-operation from Moldova, becoming an important segment of socio-economic system of the country, during its activity of around a century and a half passed through different periods of ascension and decline, resisting to the impact of the world economic crisis and internal ones. The...

We study a simple model of repeated partnerships with noisy outcomes. Two partners first choose a sharing rule, under which they start their repeated interaction. We characterize the sharing rule which supports the most efficient equilibrium, and show that it suffices to consider two particular...

Experimental evidence shows that people tend to be more cooperative with persons belonging to their own group than with others. Strangely enough, this literature largely fails to consider a type of group pervasive in modern societies: colleagues belonging to the same productive organization....

This paper presents a study of the Mondragon Cooperative Experience from the point of view of Organisational Engineering. It studies the origins and historical development of the Mondragon experience and its situation within the context of the Basque Country. It focuses on Mondragon’s...

After years of preconceptions about co-operatives in developing countries, scholars and international institutions have re-evaluated their role particularly in poverty reduction strategies. Crucial condition is that co-operatives are considered as genuine, authentically participatory...