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Latin American Cooperatives Project
Development Studies
In the summer of 2005, BARA researchers initiated
the Latin American Coops Project funded by USAID under a subcontract
to ACDI/VOCA, a Washington-based non-profit development firm. This
five-year project seeks to document the impacts of cooperative organizational
models on members, local communities, and local economies in four
countries of Latin America-Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia, and Bolivia.
In Brazil, four cooperatives in forest and cerrado regions of the
Amazon Basin were studied by teams of graduate students. Following
the Brazil fieldwork, the teams moved to Paraguay, and four more cooperative
case studies were conducted. These data are now being analyzed in
order to identify sets of change strategies that could enhance the
performance of cooperatives as mechanisms of equitable development.
BARA Researchers:
Dr.
Marcela Vasquez-Leon
Dr. Tim Finan
Krisna Ruette
Anita Carrasco
Fernando Mayorga
Jessica Piekielek
Olga Lucia Cuellar
Paola Canova
Brian Burke
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