| "(...) People working in or within the framework of cooperatives make up 10% of the global employed population
according to conservative estimates, without counting the jobs and economic activities that have been created
through loans granted by credit cooperatives, or through other key inputs provided by insurance cooperatives or
electricity cooperatives to millions of producers, nor the indirect jobs generated for providers and clients. The
wider social and solidarity economy (which also includes mutuals, worker-owned enterprises, associations,
foundations, non-profits, NGOs, social enterprises etc.), of which cooperatives are a key pillar, represents an
even wider share of the world’s employed population. Cooperatives are also involved in SME clustering, as has
been recognized by the ILO, thus potentially covering a substantially wider proportion of the world of work. (...)" |
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