Cooperative credit systems: defence of the model

  • Roxana Sánchez Boza Universidad de Costa Rica
Keywords: Saving and credit cooperatives, Central America, financial intermediation

Abstract

This study analyses the role carried out by saving and credit cooperatives in Central America where they have gained momentum, mainly in the past ten years. Cooperatives of this type are called financial intermediation cooperatives due to the influence of various legislative regulations that have placed them in the context of international control, the type of economic activity they perform and the fact that they make profits from both public and private international entities which enable their growth.

Many of these organizations can be commended. They are highly competitive on financial markets and strive to extend their profits to increasingly larger parts of the population while also searching for new products to benefit the sector of the population that has chosen the cooperative model as a means to progress in a sphere of equity and respect for the rights of their fellow men.

Received: 31 May 2015
Accepted: 17 July 2015
Published online
: 18 December 2015

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Published
2015-11-18
How to Cite
Sánchez Boza, Roxana. 2015. “Cooperative Credit Systems: Defence of the Model”. International Association of Cooperative Law Journal, no. 49 (November), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-49-2015pp31-48.