Rediscovering the cooperative advantage - Poverty reduction through self-help

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REINVENTING THE WHEEL? AFRICAN COOPERATIVES IN A LIBERALIZED ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT (2009, unknown): “It is surprising that very little literature on African cooperatives has been generated since the early 1990s despite the continuing debate in favour of cooperatives as the most suitable form of organization for alleviating poverty on the continent (Birchall, 2003; 2004).”
Cooperatives and the Millennium Development Goals (2004, background): “…Europe and North America around this period were set up deliberately as women’s cooperatives, linked to the wider women’s 45 See the case study in Birchall (2003) 46 Figures from Cole, GDH (1944) 47 See Gaffin and Thoms (1993) for the history of the movement Cooperatives and the Millennium…”
Encountering the Evidence: Cooperatives and Poverty Reduction in Africa (2008, background): “The purpose of this paper is to move the debate on the contribution of cooperatives to poverty reduction in Africa from “their potential role” (Birchall, 2003) to their actual impact using empirical evidence from the field.”