Micro-insurance and Health Care in Developing Countries
Profiding health care in developing countries is no easy matter. The products and services are limited and expensive, the quality is bad, the personnel are under-motivated and there is an insufficient supply of affordable medicines. On top of that, patients are dropping out of the system... |
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Working the future together
The co-operative movement has geat potential. It is a movement of development and growthn not of loss. However, it should never be completely satisfied with its acievements. It is a movement that has to continually balance fundamental values and principles and the requirements of present-day society. |
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Guarantee Funds : A Success Factor in Microfinance?
Guarantee fund. A term often heard in the world of development co-operation in recent years. And a term that holds hope for many people in developing countries, the hope to secure a loan and in this way build a dignified existence.... |
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Development Co-operation: How Co-operatives Cope
Researchers from HIVA (Higher Insitute for Labour Studies) have studied what co-operatives from the North are doing tot support their co-operative colleagues in the South. They examined which forms of technical support and training they provide, how they fund their partners, how they set up trade relations and how their approach has evolved in recent years. |
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