Essays on Cooperatives

Mao ruled China for the period from 1949 to 1976. During his leadership, Mao oversaw several initiatives that aimed to put across the progress of the country. Several of these revolutionary changes captured the attention of the media and received intensive debate from professionals and members of the Republic. Among the initiatives that received media attention is the five-year plan that was published in the first week of August 1955. The information in the extracts of the China Mainland Press indicated that the plan was drafted to happen between the years 1953 to 1957 (Pong, 2009). The five-year plan ...

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Key issue. 4 Alternative courses of action. 5 Evaluation of the courses of action. 6 Talent management. 6 Branding. 7 Information technology. 7 The best course of action. 8

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Federated Co-operative Limited Change Management. Facts surrounding the case. Before 2010, Federated Co-Operatives Limited had several out of date features that influenced its operations by creating weaknesses. One such area was the organizational structure. The organizational structure of Federated Co-Operatives Limited had been hierarchical until the absorption of Scott Banda as the chief executive officer. Other areas of weakness presented in this organization included such processes as Information Technology (IT), ...

Co-operative

A co-operative refers the autonomous association of individuals joined voluntary to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs as well as ambitions with the help of joined and democratically controlled organization. The co-operatives in not only developed, but also in developing countries increase the income and employment opportunities for its members. According to United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Annan, the movement of the cooperative is the biggest organized segment of civil society that plays key role in fulfilling the human needs. These organizations offer facilities like health, housing and banking. In addition, they are involved in promoting education ...

The economy is made up of three main sectors; private, public, and the social economy sector. The private sector comprises of businesses, while the public sector is mainly the government. The social economy sector is composed of non-governmental not for profit institutions and organizations, cooperatives, charitable organizations, and social enterprises (Neamtam 1). A social economy can be said to be a distinct financial system established with the aim of improving the wellbeing of the communities, both socially and economically. The social economy has been in existence for a long time, although the first application of the cooperative principles to ...

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LOS ANGELES TIMES Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA), is the elimination of trade barriers and uniting all free economies member countries. The member countries include Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Barlow, 2001). The free trade areas were established to cater for the in the lower class in the society. The free trade area will ...

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) better known as Obamacare is a federal statute that was signed into law in early 2010. Under this Act health institutions as well as physicians would change their clinical, technological and financial practices to improve health outcomes, lower healthcare costs and ensure accessibility to health services. The act is aimed at increasing affordability and quality of health insurance, lowering the uninsured rate and reducing healthcare costs to both the government and individuals through the expansion of private and public insurance. However, it is impossible to support the scheme unless the underlying challenges ...

Well connected cities mean efficient sharing of resources. The new circumstances today are amplifying cities as new platforms for sharing housing, food, transportation and other goods. New technologies and needs encourage supply and demand at the peer-to-peer level.1.1 SHAREABLE TRANSPORTATIONShareable transportation is a smarter way to lower pollution and utilize transportation resources fully.1.1.1 Car sharing solutions lower economic and environmental costs and some examples are Car sharing companies, Ridesharing, and Public Bike sharing, that are an efficient and economically feasible solution. Carsharing vehicles should be given car sharing parking zones near public transit facilities and exemptions to parking limits ...

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Advantages There is ease of forming a proprietorship and the expenses are low. In some states, it is allowed that proprietorships be exempted from double taxation as is the case in many corporations. In any case, the proprietorship could be named under a fictitious name for marketing enhancement. The additional costs incurred during tax filing and accounting are cut down since the owner of the proprietorship is not required to file separate tax reports. All that is required is the listing of business figures and information within an individual tax file return (Moeller, 2011). Proprietorship allows ...

Introduction

The article reviews the financial and economic benefits acquired by the community and employees of Lincolnshire cooperatives since its establishment in the region. It emphasizes on the strenuous economic status of the members of the cooperatives who have benefited in different ways from the existence of the cooperative. Members receive dividends, and bonus offers are given when they purchase local products. This has been used as a motivation strategy to increase their purchase of local products thus developing the region. The bonus can be termed as a payment for their royalty to their own goods.

The employees of the cooperative ...

International Trade Operations Management

Abstract The international markets operate in different dimensions and some of the fundamental principles it employs include free and fair trade. Free trade is defined by allowing organizations to trade freely in their products without restrictions. Fair trade is providing viable conditions for marginalized manufacturers in the market to operate without being overstepped by others. The paper focuses on the tenets of fair and free trade and also puts into perspective the corporate strategies employed by companies in the international market and the inherent challenges.

It is an international market policy that intimates that governments should not restrict ...

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Business environment is increasingly changing pushing firms to adapt strategies that seek to enhance not only their competiveness but also sustainability. One such strategy is the M&A that is becoming a crucial tool for growing in both local and international markets. In that respect, this literature review sought to identify the reasons for M&A, their advantages as well as disadvantages. To achieve the objective, the review used past studies and researches on the subject seeking various authors’ views on the reasons, benefits and disadvantages. In the review, it has been identified that M&As have various benefits for all participating firms. ...

Big Rivers Electric Corporation

Big rivers Electric Corporation is a company that generates and transmits electricity. It is a partnership company that is a member –owned. The company is non-profit making company. It has three main cooperatives to which electric power and services are provided in wholesale. They include the Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation, Kenergy Corporation, and Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation. The three cooperatives distribute the electricity to 22 counties in western Kentucky. According to financial statements for the year ended 31st, 2007, the Big Rivers Electric Corporation had a utility net of $ 911, 634. It had total utility net of $ 917, 668 in ...

The development of Russia had many historical turning points. These changes were mainly connected with such political figures as Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. The Soviet economy depended on mostly political decisions but not economic programs. Although the basic economic system in Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev eras remained unchanged, there were some peculiarities in these periods. The effect of Stalin’s policy had a profound impact on people and the state. In 1928, the Communists instituted the first Five-Year Plan. It dealt with such aspects of development as an industry, consumer goods, agriculture, transportation, communications, health, education, and ...

Introduction

Historically, Guatemala has been a well known producer and exporter of high quality coffee. In recent years, however, stiff competition from other coffee producing nations such as Brazil and Vietnam has driven global prices low. This means that it has become increasingly unprofitable to produce coffee in Guatemala. Despite the ample land and human resources available in the country, farmers have been forced to stop production since they can no longer pay workers from proceeds. For the most part of the country, this has led to poverty and under-development. Incredibly, however, some farmers have vowed to fight on, forming cooperatives ...

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The Name of the School (University) The City and State Sustainable Design and Construction Abstract In the recent past, several environmentally inspired projects have been built in the United Kingdom and around Europe. These projects have claimed to embody the principles of sustainable development. The Greenfield and Brownfield are examples of sites that have been used to parade such projects I bet in small scale. These projects have always presented debates regarding their sustainability and maintainability.

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In 2009, the Hometown foundation revealed an ambitious plan in south Lanarkshire to build a brand new town named Owenstown ( ...

A business entity can be organized in a number of ways depending on the forms its owners choose regarding legal liability and income tax treatment. There are four types of businesses which include; - Sole proprietorship/sole traders - Partnership - Cooperatives; and - Corporations Forms of business organizations refer to aspects such as risk bearing, ownership, control and distribution of profit. One’s choice of a business entity depends on certain factors like the objective of the business, nature, capital required state of control, the scale of operations, legal requirements and so on. It is therefore ...

CHILD LABOR AND COFFEE IN GAUTEMALA

Agritourism is an attractive rural tourism sector that has helped Guatemala become a commercial tourism spot. The development of the coffee tours has helped strengthen the country’s cooperatives that run such programs and contributed to the inflow of precious foreign exchange. However, “the coffee tour echoes the themes of a larger ‘identity economy’ that has grown exponentially in the past decades,” says Comaroff and Comaroff (2009), in Lyon’ (2013), “Coffee Tourism and Community Development in Guatemala.” Sadly, while the tour is a booming business, the benefits are not evenly distributed among the residents and those who work in the farms. What ...

Introduction

Coffee is one the world’s most consumed beverage. Several world economies depend on the growing, production and exportation of this commodity, which contains caffeine. The latter has brought about different conflicting views with different researches providing conflicting information about the consumption of this beverage in different population. For instance, while some researchers propose that coffee is associated with high mortality rates, and that drinking coffee cause stagnation in the growth of the features, other research findings have suggested the reverse of the former research findings. Additionally, several people have reacted differently in their commentaries of the research findings ...

1.Who was Gen. Augusto Pinochet and what did he do on Sept. 11, 1973? He was an army general in Chile and on Sept. 11, 1973 successfully staged a coup of Chile. 2. Who filmed this documentary and how did they gain access to Pinochet's Prisons? A European film crew talked their way into the concentration camps. They filmed many things that they were not supposed to, resulting in some of the only recorded records of what was happening.2. Who were people detained and on what grounds? People were detained if they were perceived to have ...

Functions of Australian financial institution 3

Lending and depository functions4 Insurance and pension funds services.5 Creating and providing ownership for financial claims..6 Conclusion..7

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Introduction The financial system in Australia is composed of set of arrangements that cover both lending and borrowing of funds and transfer of ownership of the financial claims. This financial system have a number of sectors that include credit unions, banks, and building societies all of which are called financial institutions or Authorized Deposit taking Institutions. The other sectors include insurance, payment systems, superannuation, and financial markets. The financial institution in Australia is resilient, sound, and well managed. It ...

A New Window for Social Entrepreneurship

Literature Review Introduction The development of an environmentally, financially and socially sustainable global economy is reliant on local economies that can be sustained (Wicks, 2006, p. 1). However, becauseglobalisation is causing a decline in local communities—particularly family farms, local businesses —it is important for small companies to work together tobuildlocal living economies in their own regions thatlink on both thenational and international level. This paper reviewsthe literature addressing the nature ofcommunity-owned enterprises and the benefits of theseto not only the individual owners but also other business owners and communities. It is aimed that by showing how ...

Why fair trade is so important in this day and time Fair trade is a structured social movement whose aims are to help producers in developing countries to enhance better trading conditions and promote sustainability. Fair trade is becoming so important in this day and time. First, the trade fair today enhances direct trade among business investors in the world. Fair trade has encouraged this dream by empowering groups of investors to strive towards working directly to disregard middlemen and other extra costs which discourage profits. As a result, workers are able to receive more profit for their goods and also ...

If Foucault was correct, then contemporary society really is an authoritarian, disciplinary state, although it is not necessarily clear that he is right, at least compared to what existed in the past. Nor is present-day society really all that decentralized, given the power of global corporations and powerful institutions like the World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund. Most of the new technologies that exist really are under the control of large capitalist interests, which also control governments. In addition, the military power of states is certainly as great as it ever was, including the capacity to destroy the ...

Cuba and Venezuelan Socialism in 21st century

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The world has witnessed various revolutions over the years. An activity or a movement, which results into fundamental changes in social, economic and political situations, can be termed as a revolution. There are numerous revolutions, which have either failed or succeeded in achieving the intended objectives to initiators and generations thereafter. 20th century is one of the most influential centuries in human history when there were numerous revolutions. One such revolution which took place was in the form of the rise of Socialism which first came into effect in Russia after the Czar of Russia was overthrown ...

‘Medical Marijuana’ is the term used to contrast the use of marijuana as a pharmaceutical to the recreational use of marijuana; it is marijuana which is used as a pharmaceutical (NCI, 2012; Louie, 2005). Marijuana is a species of cannabis so that term is also used when discussing medical marijuana (Fichtner, 2010, 63-64). Hash, hashish oil and marijuana are all made from parts of the Cannabis sativa plant (NCI, 2012; Louie, 2005). The pharmaceutical effects that relieve symptoms such as chronic pain and nausea are due to the active ingredient in the marijuana plant called THC. The chemical name is delta9tetrahydrocannnabinol (NCI, ...