2 Is cooperative action modern or old fashioned? Why should policymakers pursue it in development strategies? In what way are cooperatives different in terms of economic theory and organisation theory? And if there are differences in organisation, human resource management practices, property rights and forms of collective action, what are the governance issues to be addressed so as to allow co...

This study analyzes characteristics determining member’s willingness to invest in cooperatives using ordered logit model. The data were collected in a field survey among 122 cooperative members in north-central China. The descriptive analysis of survey evidence suggests that cooperatives in China generally having poor ability to deliver the processing services related to product package, gradin...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to estimate the overall efficiency and productivity growth of credit cooperatives in Japan during 1992–1996. Overall efficiency is decomposed into output technical efficiency and input allocative efficiency. Twenty percent of all credit cooperatives in Japan are foreign owned with more than 90% of those owned by Koreans. The history of institutional discr...

The good news is that the incidence of HIV in the Kingdom of Swaziland has stabilised over the past 5 years. The bad news is that it is still 31% among adults aged 18–49 years and, alarmingly, 43% among pregnant women. All told, an estimated 201 292 Swazis were HIV-positive in 2012, despite intensive eff orts to mitigate the epidemic. The government provides antiretroviral treatment (ART) and, ...

nowadays because of appearing concepts such as good governance as one of essential requirements for sustainable development, controversy about monitoring and accountability of public institutes as one of the good governance features has been increasingly important. non governmental public institutes and organizations don't get exception. financial control over these kinds of institutes can...

BACKGROUND Out-of-hours primary care services have a high general practitioner (GP) workload with increasing costs, while half of all contacts are non-urgent. OBJECTIVES To identify views of GPs to influence the use of the out-of-hours GP cooperatives. METHODS Cross-sectional survey study among a random sample of 800 GPs in the Netherlands. RESULTS Of the 428 respondents (53.5% response r...