Across Boundaries: european cooperative societies. Study cases
The aim to achieve �in 2003� the single market also for the European
cooperative societies was one of the major objectives of the EC Regulation
concerning the status of the Societas Cooperativa Europeae (SCE). Seven
years later there seems to be little practical experiences. This paper is focused
in the analysis of experiences in the Basque Country, especially on
Ethical Banking and the Project developed known as Fiare, which would be the first European scope credit cooperative. The study of this case has
just emerged some questions about the real difficulties for extending this
kind of European collaboration: some of them with legal basis but others
probably with cultural basis.
La banca ética como herramienta de acción política
This article offers a reflection about the value and relevance of ethical banking in the actual economic context and outlines the pillars on which those initiatives are based. The approach is based on the consideration of the place that credit has in our societies, as the key factor to understand the social impact of the financial intermediation. The analysis focuses on the human rights perspective and leads todescribe the processes that ground the ethical banking initiatives that promote the right to credit, underlying its status as a tool for political action, as collective action networks committed to social transformation.
The Use of Qualitative Information in Macro-Economic Policy Analysis
The majority of macro-economic policy models takes for granted that conflicts among objectives can be assessed by means of a tradeoff analysis. Such tradeoffs imply that sacrifices and benefits of various impacts of decisions can be measured on a cardinal scale, so that a conventional macro-economic utility or welfare analysis can be applied.