Traces the historical path of cooperatives and trends since the 1990s. Gives examples from eleven countries in Africa of successful, genuine and economically viable cooperatives, and how they create economic opportunities and a basic level of social protection and security, and provide their...

Cover -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Executive Summary -- Part One: Cooperatives on the African continent -- Chapter One - Cooperative Development in Africa up to the 1990s -- Chapter Two - Renaissance of African Cooperatives in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Field --...

Purpose – This paper aims to fill the academic gaps in the study of the new co‐operative movement in China and its innovative mechanisms, and to assess why new co‐operatives deviate from the orthodox co‐operative model represented by the standards of the International Cooperative...