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Do Cooperative credit unions reduce or increase poverty in Cameroon?

Social Science Quarterly, 2023
AbstractPurposeThis study looks at whether credit unions, a type of microfinance, increase or decrease poverty in Cameroon from 2004 Q1 to 2021 Q4.Method/designThe fully modified ordinary least square, dynamic ordinary least square, and conical co‐integration is applied.FindingsThe findings reveal a long‐term association between credit union measures ...
Chi Aloysius Ngong, Ishaku Prince Abner, Charles Ogechukwu Ugbam, Josaphat U. J. Onwumere   +3 more
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The cooperative identity at U.S. credit unions

Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, 2022
Abstract With over 5,000 credit unions and 127 million members, U.S. credit unions are the largest network of financial cooperatives in the world. To what extent do U.S. credit unions follow cooperative principles, reflect the cooperative identity, and distinguish themselves from other financial institutions? As credit unions grow and diversify their
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Cooperatives, Credit Unions, and Social Engagement in Canada

2007
Co-operatives serve as engines for local economies; generating and retaining local wealth, operating through existing social networks within communities and providing economic opportunities for local people. Is there a correlation between levels of social engagement and the presence of co-operatives and credit unions?
Kennedy, Travis, Kennedy, Travis
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Credit Unions as Cooperative Institutions: Distinctiveness, Performance and Prospects

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 2015
AbstractCredit unions are not for profit cooperative financial institutions which provide financial services to a membership defined on the basis of a common bond. In 2013, there were 56,904 credit unions across 103 countries with 207.9 million members. There is a great diversity within the credit union movement across these countries.
McKillop, Donal G., Wilson, John O. S.
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Examining the Effects of Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League (CamCCUL) on Satisfaction of Members in Affiliated Credit Unions

Journal of Economics, Management and Trade, 2019
Aim: This study set out to examine the effects of Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League (CamCCUL) on the satisfaction of members in affiliated Credit Unions. In a world where heightened competition keeps elevating the pivotal role of customer as economic bottom line-drivers, exploring the role corporate parenting plays on both intermediary and ...
Buwah, Neba Noela, Akpan, Emmanuel I, Joyvice, Chofor   +2 more
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The Credit Union as A Cooperative Institution

Review of Social Economy, 1971
(1971). The Credit Union as A Cooperative Institution. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 207-217.
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Credit Union Governance and Survival of the Cooperative Form

Journal of Financial Services Research, 2001
Credit unions are cooperative financial institutions that typically operate on a one-member/one-vote governance rule. This paper demonstrates that such a governance rule may enhance the survival of such organizational forms in the face of adverse incentives created by accumulated financial surpluses and identifies factors that may prompt conversion to ...
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The Cooperative Difference? Social Auditing in Canadian Credit Unions

2000
This paper reports research on three Canadian credit unions which have made an ongoing commitment to social auditing and which have conducted more than onc social audit. For these credit unions social auditing offers one way to promote and demonstrate accountability, and provides information which can guide credit unions' operations and policy ...
Brown, Leslie, Brown, Leslie
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Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions in Latvia

2016
Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions (CSCUs) in Latvia are formal cooperative financial institutions operating on financial market. CSCUs provide basic financial services—savings, loans and money transferring—to their members at reasonable price. CSCUs are mutual help organizations, which mostly serve unbankable people.
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Cooperative Traits of Technology Adoption: Website Adoption in Irish Credit Unions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine website adoption and its resultant effects on credit union performance in Ireland. Credit union specific factors influence adoption as does the socio-economic profile of the population from where the credit union draws its membership.
Donal G. McKillop, Barry Quinn
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