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 ...

Solid waste, including municipal waste and its management, is a major challenge for most cities and among the key contributors to climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced through recovery and recycling of resources from the municipal solid waste stream. In São Paulo, Brazil, recycling cooperatives play a crucial role in providing recycling services including collection, separatio...

The growth of organizations and consequently the increase in their structural complexity, have required greater competence formulation execution strategies that make it possible to overcome growing market demands order achieve purposes. Thus, there is a need for professional management structuring corporate governance mechanisms. In this sense, study aimed analyze level adoption Corporate Gover...

This paper examines the effects of tying microenterprise credit cooperatives (or “village banks”), with health and education services, using data from two Latin American countries, Ecuador and Honduras. Credit constraints particularly affect women (microentrepreneur) borrowers. Evidence suggests that mothers’ income increases are more likely to be spent on nutrition and other health improving e...

This paper focuses on the important role played by cooperatives in agriculture production and marketing Nepal. The evaluates of cooperatives, their contribution to agriculture, current policies that have paved way for development within cooperative sectors recommendations improving marketing. methodology employed includes a review existing literature policies, as well discussions with key infor...

This paper aims at positioning producer cooperatives within the Transaction Cost Economics theory, one of the most cited and prolific theories on management studies. To accomplish this goal, I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, which transactions producer cooperatives regulate, under which market conditions they operate, and where are the boundaries for such organizations. This pa...

The New Generation Cooperatives: Case Studies are made possible with support from the Illi-nois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR) and the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA). A collection of ten case studies with an introduction is available from IIRA in print and on the IIRA web page. Quoting from these materials for noncommercial purposes is permitted provided proper c...

This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technol...