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Exploring the co-operative economy

The World Co-operative Monitor is a project designed to collect robust economic, organisational, and social data about not only the top 300 co-operatives, mutual organisations and non-co-operative enterprises controlled by co-operatives worldwide, but also an expanded number of co-operatives and groups in order to represent the co-operative sector in its organisational, regional, and sectorial diversity.

Launched in 2012, the project continues the work started by the International Co-operative Alliance with the Global300. With the scientific support of the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse), the goals have been broadened and the database and methodology strengthened. The data in this edition of the World Co-operative Monitor refer to the year 2013.

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