OBJECTIVE This article examines the impact of contracting health care provision to health care cooperatives in Costa Rica. METHODOLOGY The article uses a panel dataset on health care outputs in traditional clinics and cooperatives in Costa Rica from 1990-99. RESULTS Controlling for community socioeconomic characteristics, annual time trends and clinic complexity, the cooperatives conducted ...

Agricultural cooperatives in the United States are larger and more complex than ever before. Due to this growth, farmer directors need up-skill maximize member benefits. Director education is generally considered a successful strategy for improving financial strategic performance, yet little research has examined skills U.S. agricultural cooperative need. This identified – and, notably, behavio...

Agriculture represents an important sector of the Romanian economy, with certain vulnerabilities under current geo-political context and pedoclimatic changes a direct impact upon food security at national European levels. This paper analyzes possibilities for revitalizing agricultural sector, which was affected by excessive inflation (especially via price increases fertilizers fuels) drought, b...