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Cooperative firms and the sustainable development goals : pursuing decent work and reducing inequality / Jae Myong Koh.
Author
Koh, Jae-myong
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Language
English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
©2024
Description
xii, 186 pages ; 25 cm.
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HD3388.A4 K64 2024
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Consumer cooperatives
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Korea (South).
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Sustainable development
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Korea (South).
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Income distribution
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Korea (South)
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Series
Routledge frontiers of political economy
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Summary note
"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 21st 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 middle-wage workers and what governments can do to promote them. Koh clarifies the mechanism in which cooperatives create an upper hand over conventional companies in 'labor-intensive' sectors, thereby boosting employment potential. He also explains cooperatives' wide contribution to the SDGs, including the resilience of cooperatives in times of crises and their potential to address the challenges of ageing societies. Furthermore, he provides a foundational work on 'decentralized supporting mechanisms for cooperatives' based on the analysis of the case of South Korea, where the number of cooperatives increased by 2,000 percent between 2013 and 2023. Lastly, he explains how to use Official Development Assistance (ODA) to support cooperatives in developing countries, especially Private Sector Instruments (PSIs) which were introduced in 2016 by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD. This book will be interest for researchers in the fields of co-operatives management, development economics and heterodox economics, as well as policymakers and professionals"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781032600925
1032600926 (hardcover)
9781032601021 (paperback)
1032601027 (paperback)
LCCN
2023025796
OCLC
1382401161
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