Financial cooperatives and local development / edited by Silvio Goglio and Yiorgos Alexopoulos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexopoulos, Yiorgos.

Goglio, Silvio, 1948-

Series:

Routledge studies in development economics ; 98.

Routledge Studies in Development Economics ; 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial institutions.

Banks and banking.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and rational expectations, but has also generated a great deal of disillusionment with the banking system and underlined the importance of a healthy society for the welfare of the individual. Consequently, new and innovative ways of providing finance are needed, especially for strengthening the developmen

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction: cooperative finance and sustainable local development; PART I Stakeholder-oriented versus profit-maximizing banks; 1 Cooperative banking: a Minskyan perspective; 2 Governance and performance: reassessing the pre-crisis situation of European banks; 3 Competition and market power within the Italian banking system; 4 Cooperative capital: why our world needs it; PART II From cooperative banks to local societies

5 The case for proactive cooperative banks and local development: innovation, growth, and community building in Almería, Spain6 Cooperative banks and community development in Japan; 7 Homo dictyous transforms homo oeconomicus: the social network culture of Hellenic cooperative banking in Crete; 8 Innovative approaches to generating and using cooperative capital: observations from France and Germany; PART III Microfinance and local development; 9 Re-discovering a paradigm: the promotion of savings by credit unions within the UK policy context of asset-based welfare

10 Microfinance and poverty reduction in Bangladesh: challenges and opportunities11 Microcredit: a model for activating poverty zones in Mexico; Conclusions: a tale of two models; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 25, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-25359-9

0-203-10534-6

9780203105344

OCLC:

843642540