Abstract:
The co-operative sector and organization in particular, have undergone major
transformation and painful restructuring in the last twenty-five years since the
beginning of the Structural Adjustment programs and consequent liberalization and
competition as business competition became the order of the day, it has been very clear
that the old model of government protected and controlled cooperatives, is declining.
giving way to the development of a new generation of market driven co-operatives
across the globe