Money & Business
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
...account for 36.4 percent of all retail sales. In Japan, 90 percent of all farmers belong to a coop. Even in the United States, 30,000 cooperatives provide more than 2 million jobs. In short, cooperatives offer a proven potential for making the global economy more fair, democratic and sustainable. One of the world’s cooperative strongholds is the Italian region of...