Co-operatives for development
By Glenn Ashton
This article was published more than ten years ago. The information it contains may be incomplete or out of date.
Few South Africans realise the power of Co-operatives in the global economy. Canada, Norway, Italy, India, China and Brazil each have a significant amount of their GDP generated by Co-operative organisations. One in four citizens in the USA and Germany are members of Co-ops. Even though our government has identified and prioritised Co-operatives as an ideal developmental tool, most South Africans remain ignorant of quite what a Co-op is.
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