Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics最新文献

Active ageing in place through home sharing programmes has been largely ignored in the literature compared to other models such as senior cohousing. This article seeks to analyse the economic viability of a theoretical proposal for an older people's neighbourhood cooperative. The objective of this cooperative is to facilitate shared housing with the goal of acquiring economic resources through renting housing for remodelling and providing support services. A qualitative methodology is employed to gather the opinions of the older people in focus groups, accompanied by a quantitative methodology involving a cost-benefit economic study. This assessment utilizes parameters such as location, housing type, adaptation level and financing formula. The methodology is applied to two case studies in the cities of Seville and Malaga (Spain). The qualitative results reflect positively on the model and highlight the diversity of care situations for older people. This flexibility allows for the establishment of a cooperative model with varying degrees of self-sufficiency based on adaptation level, services, and conditions for sharing space. Finally, the article discusses the advantages of the model for public policies related to the active ageing of older people and housing. It emphasizes the potential to increase the rental housing supply.

Grassroots entrepreneurship catalyses economic revitalization, innovation and societal transformation. However, microentrepreneurs, especially women, often encounter amplified impediments to obtaining formal finance, hindering their growth. This study proposes a community-based financing model, anchored in informal collectives, such as self-help groups, that provides a conducive entrepreneurial ecosystem, especially for women entrepreneurs, by providing easy access to finance, market knowledge, social capital and capacity-building support for entrepreneurial development. Despite the growing significance, research in this field is scarce. The present study addresses this gap by integrating bibliometric and systematic review employing the SPAR-4SLR protocol. We analysed 180 Social Science Citation Index-indexed articles published up to September 2024 using the Web of Science database. The present endeavour aims to construct a cognitive framework by conducting performance analysis and highlighting prominent themes using science mapping techniques. The seven identified (n = 59) themes include policy advocacy, women's empowerment, financial inclusion, digitalization, sustainable entrepreneurship, social capital, capacity building and socioeconomic impact assessment. Additionally, a TCCM framework utilized 74 highly esteemed articles and offered valuable insights into future research directions. Our findings call for empirical validation of community financing on entrepreneurial performance and sustainability, digital transformation and the realization of sustainable development goals. In conclusion, this study underscores community-based entrepreneurship as a strategic framework for inclusive and sustainable economic development.

To mitigate tax evasion, the use of lottery awards is an important policy. In December 2019, Receita da Sorte a daily and instantaneous lottery was introduced, in a Brazilian state. This article aims to analyse the impact assessment of the new award program and the traditional. The approaches are directed to the taxpayer behaviour awarded and to his municipality, looking for the herd effect. This study uses a difference-in-differences model. The response variables are the number and monthly value of electronic invoices issued to beneficiaries. The database is composed of fiscal invoices issued from January 2021 to May 2023 and contains 47 million observations on 3,4 million taxpayers. The treatment group is made up of the awards citizens. The results show that the Receita da Sorte has 227% more effect in number of invoices and 166% more in value than the traditional monthly lottery. Additionally, a subgroup within Receita da Sorte exhibited behaviour resembling gambling addiction, where the effects appeared amplified. In the municipal-level analysis, the herd effect was observed. For public policy implications, the analysis corroborates the use of the instant lotteries to increase citizen engagement.

The unique nature of agricultural cooperatives determines that their business scope is significantly influenced by individual and organizational operations as well as government intervention. This paper examines various factors affecting the operation of cooperatives at the individual level, the cooperative level and the government level by applying the multivariate ordered probit regression model and marginal probability analysis to the research data of 500 agricultural cooperatives. The results indicate that directors’ practical experience (EXP), demonstration ratings, explicit incentives (EIs), and government-provided training (TRAIN) exert a significant influence on cooperatives’ vertical integration (VI). These findings offer valuable insights for cooperative managers and policymakers, suggesting that the level of VI can be advanced by enhancing directors’ practical EXP, improving demonstration ratings, increasing both the absolute and relative values of EIs, and, at the same time, obtaining and participating in more government-provided TRAINs.

Amidst the escalating impact of climate change, the agricultural sector faces the challenge of maintaining productive capacity while conserving increasingly scarce water resources. Modernizing irrigation systems by replacing inefficient open-channel distribution infrastructures is crucial to address this challenge. Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) offers a valuable tool to assess the effectiveness of such actions, in terms of both financial and socio-environmental impacts. CBA is also valuable for optimizing the allocation of limited financial resources to the most impactful measures and addressing trade-offs within the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus. This study applies CBA to two modernization projects in the ‘Villalar de los Comuneros’ irrigation district in the Duero River Basin, located in northern Spain. The first project focuses on enhancing energy efficiency by installing a photovoltaic system to power irrigation pumps, while the second promotes climate-smart agriculture through the use of soil moisture sensors to improve irrigation precision and facilitate the transition to higher value crops. The results of the CBA demonstrate the financial and economic viability of both projects, highlighting the social and environmental benefits generated, and providing policymakers with a valuable framework for guiding similar future interventions.

This study provides empirical evidence that European Union (EU)-funded economic recovery policies, in particular Next Generation EU (NGEU), reinforce rather than mitigate gender inequalities. By analysing Spain's Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTEs) through Input–Output Models, the research shows that investments disproportionately favour male-dominated sectors, while neglecting the structural barriers that limit women's access to high-growth industries. Despite rhetorical commitments to gender equality, the allocation of recovery and resilience funds reflects the EU's past responses to crises, prioritising industrial competitiveness over social equity. However, the PERTE of the social and care economy stands out as a partial exception, with higher female participation and potential for more inclusive policies. The results support feminist critiques of macroeconomic planning and emphasize the need for structural change in economic governance. By exposing the gender biases in recovery strategies, this research underlines the urgency of incorporating gender equality into macroeconomic policy to promote truly inclusive growth.

In response to the challenges facing cooperatives in Vietnam and the government's emphasis on the collective economy as a pillars of the socialist-oriented market economy, numerous policies have been introduced to support and promote cooperatives development. However, their effectiveness remains underexplored. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of government support for cooperatives in Vietnam, using a panel dataset of 6818 cooperatives from 2012 to 2016. The findings reveal heterogeneous effects of support types on cooperative performance. Capacity-building support consistently improves income generation, return on assets (ROA) and productivity, though its benefits are less pronounced for cooperatives engaged in intra-trade. Infrastructure support negatively affects ROA but significantly increases income per member. Credit support improves ROA but reduces labour growth, reflecting its focus on capital-intensive projects, with intra-trade cooperatives benefiting more in income generation. Tax support positively influences ROA, productivity and labour growth, though its benefits on ROA diminish for intra-trade cooperatives, and its effect on labour growth shifts from negative in younger cooperatives to positive in older ones. Other supports improve productivity across all cooperatives and boosts labour growth as cooperatives mature. The findings point out the need for tailored, context-specific interventions to foster sustainable cooperative development in transitioning economies.

The reality of the social economy has traditionally given rise to various debates and has been examined from different perspectives by academia. In this article, we conducted an in-depth study through a bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature that addresses the reality of the social economy (in its different expressions) from a gender perspective. This enabled the establishment of the conceptual, intellectual and social structure of the scientific research literature related to these two realities. Among 703 initial articles derived from Web of Science and Scopus queries, 250 were studied and processed using the Bibliometrix tool after harmonization. The findings reveal the world's leading positions of Spain and the United Kingdom in terms of related scientific production, which is reflected as well in the case of scientific collaboration networks. Also relevant is the finding of women's empowerment in the social economy as an emerging topic related to Sustainable Development Goal 5, ‘Gender equality’. These results will help researchers understand and acknowledge the social economy as a reality inherently connected to the gender perspective, promoting a more cohesive academic community that will lay the groundwork for future research.

Distributional weighting to address concerns about diminishing marginal utility of income in benefit–cost analysis has been the topic of increased interest in recent years. Concern has been expressed about the practicability of distributional weighting, given limitations on data and on the analytical capacities of agencies. This paper contributes to a small but growing literature that attempts to provide guidance and real-world examples of distributional weighting. We develop a methodology for calculating what we call ‘population weights’, which, once computed for a given population by an analyst, can be used by other analysts to implement distributional weighting on similar populations, without those analysts needing information on income distribution or the cost or benefit experienced by households at different income levels within those populations. These population weights can be calculated without knowing the costs or benefits received by households at different income levels, using proxies for cost or benefit that may be observable or about which, in the absence of data, assumptions can be made in some cases. We implement the methodology on an example regulation and present results that we believe provide useful information to decision-makers, even in the absence of estimates of unweighted costs and benefits.

This paper conceptualizes the ownership construct in financial cooperatives by exploring its main dimensions and analysing aspects related to each dimension. Based on a qualitative approach using the grounded theory and conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), our findings reveal that ownership is a multidimensional concept comprising three interconnected dimensions: formal, psychological and active ownership. Formal ownership pertains to ownership by legal rights, psychological ownership involves ownership by feelings and active ownership encompasses ownership through actions and behaviour. The study proposes relationships among these ownership features, highlighting that the respect for members’ formal ownership rights can lead to stronger ownership feelings, and these feelings may, in turn, induce active ownership. Cooperative ownership can thus be analysed as ‘a process’, which might unfold from formal to psychological and active ownership. Formal ownership is linked to active ownership through the mediating variable of psychological ownership.