Financial Cooperatives and Local Development

Introduction: Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Local Development Yiorgos Alexopoulos and Silvio Goglio Part 1: Stakeholder-Oriented versus Profit-Maximizing Banks 1. Cooperative Banking: A Minskyan Perspective Elisabetta De Antoni 2. Governance and Performance: Reassessing the Pre-Crisis Situation of European Banks Giovanni Ferri, Panu Kalmi and Eeva Kerola 3. Competition and Market Power within the Italian Banking System Juan S. Lopez and Stefano Di Colli 4. Cooperative Capital: Why our World needs it Alan J. Robb, James H. Smith and J. Tom Webb Part 2: From Cooperative Banks to Local Societies 5. The Case for Proactive Cooperative Banks in Local Development: Innovation, Growth, and Community Building in Almeria, Spain Cynthia Giagnocavo, Luis Fernandez-Revuelta Perez and David Ucles Aguilera 6. Cooperative Banks and Community Development in Japan Rosario Laratta and Sachiko Nakagawa 7. Homo Dictyous Transforms Homo Oeconomicus: The Social Network Culture of Hellenic Cooperative Banking in Crete Theodoros A. Katerinakis 8. Innovative Approaches to Generating and Using Cooperative Capital: Observations from France and Germany Amelie Artis and Holger Blisse 9. Re-Discovering a Paradigm: The Promotion of Savings by Credit Unions within the UK Policy Context of Asset-Based Welfare Anita Marchesini and Paul A. Jones 10. Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities Mokbul Morshed Ahmad 11. Microcredit: A Model for Activating Poverty Zones in Mexico David Eduardo de la Cerda Garza, Miriam del Rocio Arredondo Barrera, Morayma Lizbeth Martin Gonzalez and Maria de la Luz Bravo Santillan 12. Conclusions: A Tale of Two Models Yiorgos Alexopoulos and Silvio Goglio