Specific Publications

The Guide to ILO Recommendation 193 is intended for those who want to know more about the recommendation and how it provides a basis for law and policies on co-operatives. Select this link to view a pdf version of the file. (1013kb).

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the guide. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer it is available, free of charge, from Adobe.

United Nations – Co-operatives at Work

Cooperatives and Development - Action speaks louder than words, Ignace Pollet and Patrick Develtere, IRU Courier 1/04 - Internationale Raiffeisen Union

The role of co-operatives for development in Africa This article by Andrew Bibby, in a slightly different form, was first published in Developments magazine, 2005

Cooperatives and the Millennium Development Goals - Johnston Birchall, Cooperative Branch & Policy Integration Department International Labour Office, Geneva, Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives, 2004,

Other Sites Hosting Resources
All of these sites (sometimes portals) have useful co-operative related resources/publications:

The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) was established in 1962.

The International Labour Organisation

The International Co-operative Alliance

ELDIS Gateway to Development Information

Developments Magazine

ICA's Co-operative Learning Center (CLC)

The main Brazilian co-op portal (in Portugese) has some very useful publications and resources