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Background paper on cooperatives

8th January 20169th January 2009 by Angie_Calverts

A COPAC Commissioned Information Note.

Prepared for the United Nations consultation of UN member states and the cooperative movement on the desirability and feasibility of proclaiming an International Year of Cooperatives 2008.

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Cooperatives and Fair Trade
Economic and other benefits of the entrepreneurs’ cooperative as a specific form of enterprise cluster
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