Resilience in a downturn the power of financial cooperatives - Birchall, Johnston (International Labour Office, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references
Foreword; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Note about the author; Introduction; 1. The invention and evolution of financial cooperatives; THE INVENTION OF FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES; GROWTH OF A MOVEMENT; FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES AND GOVERNMENTS; GOOD IN A CRISIS?; THE CURRENT SITUATION OF FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES; Table 1.1 Basic statistics on European cooperative banks, ordered by market share of deposits in each country (2010); Table 1.2: Credit union basic statistics, ordered by market penetration in each region for 2011; CONCLUSION.
2. The effects of the recent banking crisis on financial cooperativesPERFORMANCE OF COOPERATIVE BANKS BEFORE THE CRISIS; Table 2.1 European cooperative banks before the crisis: top 12 countries market share and EU totals; PERFORMANCE OF CREDIT UNIONS BEFORE THE CRISIS; Table 2.2 Credit unions before the crisis; COOPERATIVE BANKS DURING AND AFTER THE CRISIS; Table 2.3 European cooperative banks during and after the crisis: Top 12 countries by 2010 market share and EU totals; Table 2.4 Effects of the banking crisis on European cooperative banks over four years
Figure 1A European cooperative banks: Market share of deposits (%)Figure 1B European cooperative banks: Assets (Euros in billions); CREDIT UNIONS DURING AND AFTER THE CRISIS; Table 2.5 Credit unions during and after the crisis; Figure 2 Credit unions during and after crisis: World totals in millions US; CONCLUSION; 3. The advantages and disadvantages of financial cooperatives; OWNERSHIP; CONTROL; BENEFIT; FEDERATION; THE WIDER BENEFITS OF FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES; Table 3.1 Some European cooperative banks' market share of loans, ordered by market share of loans to SMEs; CONCLUSION.
4. Current issues and policy recommendationsTHE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL COOPERATIVES ANDOTHER KINDS OF DEVELOPMENT; Bibliography