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COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT
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Chapter Overview
Definition of development
Characteristics of Development
Development of the social and
cooperative economy
Definition of Development
Meaning of Development
Credit Cooperative
Consumers Cooperative
Producers Cooperative
Marketing Cooperative
Service Cooperative
Multipurpose Cooperative
Workers Cooperative
Types of Cooperatives
Credit Cooperative
One which promote thrift among its
members and creates funds in order to
grant loan for productive and provident
purposes.
Consumers cooperative
One of the primary purpose of which is
to procure and distribute commodities to
members and non members
Types of Cooperatives
Producers Cooperative
one that undertakes joint production
whether agricultural or industrial
Marketing Cooperative
One which engages in the supply of
production inputs to members and
markets their products
Types of Cooperatives
Service Cooperative
One which engages in medical and dental
care, hospitalization, transportation,
insurance, housing, labor, electric light
and power, communication and other
services.
Multipurpose Cooperative
One which combines two or more of the
business activities of these different
types of cooperatives
Types of Cooperative
Workers Cooperative
A cooperative which creates work
through collective self-employment.
Cooperative and Economic Development