Tag: cooperatives

As economic crises, growing inequality and temperature change tend to prompt a worldwide debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention on one of the important matters is that specialize in ‘social and solidarity economy as a particular approach to sustainable and rights-based development. Social economy institutions and organizations play a very important role in promoting livelihoods and job creation in the fight against poverty. Social economy enterprises offer a very important source of employment in the face of world unemployment and underemployment problem. Currently, it's estimated that the worldwide cooperative movement directly provides productive self-employment for several hundred million workers-owners of production and services cooperatives...