The Asian and Pacific region is home for over 60 percent of the world’s population and more than 70 percent of the region’s population lives in rural areas and primarily involved in agriculture. Integrating and empowering rural women by promoting women’s entrepreneurship in green cooperatives has been recognized as an important approach to alleviate rural poverty and enhancing sustainable rural...

Several definitions of diversification exist. Such motivation for diversification could apply Typically, the concept is dynamic and refers to-the equally to proprietary or cooperative forms of relationship among various activities or enterprises in business. which the firm is engaged. As new activities are The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively acquired by a firm from some existing base...

Various models of organization for networks of financial cooperatives are found around the world. The current situation, especially in terms of quality of governance, outreach and efficiency, appears to have been influenced significantly by the importance placed on the type of network organization chosen in the past. For example, European federated networks of financial cooperatives present cer...

Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently. However, the data used in these studies cover a single industry, or firms matched by industry and size i...

cooperatives, established through a unification of human and economic capital within their members can lead to strengthening of the social capital. the main purpose of this descriptive – correlational research was to investigate the influence of membership in production cooperatives on the level of social capital. the statistical population for the study consisted of: poultry producers in coope...

Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently. However, the data used in these studies cover a single industry, or firms matched by industry and size i...

Abstract As one of the countries with largest Muslim population globally, Indonesia is trying to overcome poverty by driving community’s economy through various economic institutions, which sharia cooperatives. But unfortunately, even though majority Indonesian Muslim, cooperatives are less attractive public and have a slow performance compared conventional Various previous studies stated that ...

This paper develops a one-sector endogenous growth model in which renewable natural resources are postulated as both a factor of production and as a measure of environmental quality. We show that sustained economic growth and a non-deteriorating environment can coexist along the economy’s balanced growth path. Moreover, the output growth rate is positively related to the steady-state level of n...

There are two main challenges in managing natural resources. One is to respond appropriately to the ecological characteristics of a given environment, preserving its integrity and functions while assuring a flow of benefits from it. This challenge is mostly about content— the what and when of managing natural resources. The other is to respond to the social characteristics of the same environme...

Population-environment studies have implicitly permeated demography but only until the mid-20 century has the debate been rekindled and research expanded. This article reviews the origins and history of the population-environment debate and attempts to provide insight into the most recent approaches and methodology. Beginning with the most traditional relationships established between demograph...