Cooperatives and Rural Development in Latin America: An Analytic Report: Rural Institutions and Planned Change, Vol. III

In the 1960s, UNRISD carried out research projects on development planning and rural cooperatives. Work on cooperatives, which involved 40 case studies in 13 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, identified their advantages in terms of regulating markets and promoting more equitable forms of resource allocation, but it also revealed serious limitations. This volume is the analytical report for the cooperatives studied in Latin America.