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Cooperative members need

To develop successful workers cooperatives, the founders need the following services:

• Organizational assistance
• Seed capital
• Management training and advice
• Technology training and advice
• Marketing assistance
• Basic social services
• Support to vertical and horizontal integration

Only the last service is specific to cooperatives; it means support to the formation of cooperative unions and federations.

The above services are useless if Government has not created a favourable legal, institutional and administrative environment for the emergence and functioning of genuine cooperatives.

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Posted: 19 July 2000