Financial cooperatives and local development
By: edited by Silvio Goglio and Yiorgos Alexopoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415698375; 9780203105344
Subjects: Financial institutions; Banks and banking; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cooperative finance and sustainable local development / Yiorgos Alexopoulos and Silvio Goglio; title: Stakeholder-oriented versus profit-maximizing banks; title: Cooperative banking : a minskyan perspective / Elisabetta De Antoni; title: Governance and performance : reassessing the pre-crisis situation of European banks / Giovanni Ferri, Panu Kalmi, and Eeva Kerola; title: Competition and market power within the Italian banking system / Juan S. López and Stefano Di Colli; title: Cooperative capital : why our world needs it / Alan J. Robb, James H. Smith, and J. Tom Webb; title: From cooperative banks to local societies; title: The case for proactive cooperative banks in local development : innovation, growth, and community building in Almería, Spain / Cynthia Giagnocavo, Luis Fernández-Revuelta Pérez, and David Uclés Aguilera; title: Cooperative banks and community development in Japan / Rosario Laratta and Sachiko Nakagawa; title: Homo dictyous transforms homo oeconomicus : the social network culture of Hellenic cooperative banking in Crete / Theodoros A. Katerinakis; title: Innovative approaches to generating and using cooperative capital : observations from France and Germany / Amélie Artis and Holger Blisse; title: Re-discovering a paradigm : the promotion of savings by credit unions within the UK policy context of asset-based welfare / Anita Marchesini and Paul A. Jones; title: Microfinance and poverty reduction in Bangladesh : challenges and opportunities / Mokbul Morshed Ahmad; title: Microcredit : a model for activating poverty zones in Mexico / David Eduardo de la Cerda Garza, Miriam del Rocío Arredondo Barrera, Morayma Lizbeth Martín González, and María de la Luz Bravo Santillán; title: Conclusions: a tale of two models / Yiorgos Alexopoulos and Silvio Goglio.