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Cooperative Firms and the Sustainable Development Goals: Pursuing Decent Work and Reducing Inequality book cover

1st Edition

Cooperative Firms and the Sustainable Development Goals Pursuing Decent Work and Reducing Inequality

By Jae Myong Koh Copyright 2024
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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With growing economic inequality and threats to the sustainability of human societies, Koh argues that cooperatives can play an important role in promoting decent work and reducing economic inequality in the twenty-first century and thus urges policy makers to reignite policy discussions on cooperatives. This book shows how worker cooperatives are uniquely situated to empower low- and... Read more

Introduction

 

PART I

 

What is a cooperative?

 

1 A cooperative is a firm

2 The seven strengths of cooperatives

3 The six types of cooperatives

 

PART II

Why cooperatives in the twenty-first century?

 

4 Widening inequality and the importance of decent work

5 The resilience of cooperatives in times of crises

6 The role of cooperatives in supporting aging societies

7 An overview of cooperatives’ contributions to the SDGs

 

PART III

Scaling up the cooperative movement

 

8 Promoting cooperatives through decentralized public support mechanisms

9 Digitalizing cooperatives

10 The symbiotic potential between cooperatives and developing countries

 

The Way Forward

 

References

Biography

Jae Myong KOH is Dean of Education at Korea National Diplomatic Academy. Previously, he served as Vice-chair of the Development Assistance Committee, and Co-chair of the Community of Practice on Private Finance for Sustainable Development at the OECD. He is the author of Green Infrastructure Financing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

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