Contribution to the report commissioned by the International Cooperative Alliance to CICOPA, the ICA's sectoral body for industrial and service cooperatives, for the 2013 ICA World Conference in South Africa. It was a collaborative effort discussing conceptions of progress, growth, development and cooperatives.
"When the UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) began in January 2012 - about three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (conventionally considered the beginning of a global crisis) - it was already clear that this crisis, in addition to being global, would also be long and drawn out. The many initiatives of the AIC (conferences, summits, publications, documentary films) could not but face this historical turning point and try to decode it. This report is an attempt to redefine growth as a multifaceted and multidimensional concept. Co-operatives should seize this opportunity to take the lead in rethinking our global vision of growth... Co-operative Growth for the 21st Century was commissioned by the Alliance from CICOPA, the Alliance's sectoral organization for industrial and service cooperatives" (see https://www.ica.coop/fr/node/9401).
"When the UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) began in January 2012 - about three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (conventionally considered the beginning of a global crisis) - it was already clear that this crisis, in addition to being global, would also be long and drawn out. The many initiatives of the AIC (conferences, summits, publications, documentary films) could not but face this historical turning point and try to decode it. This report is an attempt to redefine growth as a multifaceted and multidimensional concept. Co-operatives should seize this opportunity to take the lead in rethinking our global vision of growth... Co-operative Growth for the 21st Century was commissioned by the Alliance from CICOPA, the Alliance's sectoral organization for industrial and service cooperatives" (see https://www.ica.coop/fr/node/9401).