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'Cooperatives viable to fight unemployment in SA' (SABC News)
Community cooperatives have experienced more than a 70% boom in South Africa over the past four years. This prompted Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to declare that cooperatives are viable instruments to fight the high unemployment in the country.
Cooperatives can help to tackle global warming: UN Chief (New Kerala)
United Nations, Jul 6: Stressing the importance of cooperation in tackling global warming, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that the cooperative enterprise can play a major role in addressing the issue.
International Day of Cooperatives (Manila Bulletin)
THE International Day of Cooperatives is celebrated today with the theme "Confronting Climate Change through Cooperative Enterprise" to highlight the complementarity of the goals and objectives of the United Nations (UN) and the international cooperative movement, and underscore the contributions that the movement has made to the resolution of major problems addressed by the UN.
Cooperatives Have Key Role Tackling Climate Change (Scoop.co.nz)
5 July 2008 - Stressing the importance of cooperation in tackling global warming, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underscored the part that in addressing the issue that can be played by cooperative enterprise.
Iowa Agriculture Briefs: 2 electric co-ops receive ag loans (The Des Moines Register)
Two Iowa electric cooperatives have received $15 million in loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development.
Reservoir dams seen as potential power sources (Albany Times Union)
Group: Sites that provide NYC with drinking water also could supply enough energy for 20,000 rural homes BLENHEIM -- Four massive upstate reservoirs that supply New York City with drinking water also may one day provide clean electric power to thousands of small-town customers. The Delaware County Electric Cooperative, one of four customer-owned cooperatives created by the state in 1941 to ...
Govt stabilises prices of essential food items - Minister (Sunday Observer)
The Government has taken all steps to stabilise essential food item prices, said Trade Marketing Development Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunawardena.
Editorial: Expand, but also improve (Business Standard India)
The Provident Fund Board has recommended a dramatic increase in the number of workers covered under the Provident Fund scheme.
Making libraries inviting to all (The Star-Ledger)
It was a story told by one sister to another that sparked a movement to change libraries around the state. Cheryl O'Connor's sister in Boston told her about an autistic child and his mother who were asked to leave a public library after the child had a meltdown.
Cooperative to help poor make extra income (The New Straits Times)
TEMERLOH: A special cooperative will be set up in each state constituency to assist the poor in generating higher incomes and to expose them to business opportunities.