The Economics of Financial Cooperatives : Income Distribution, Political Economy and Regulation (Paperback)

1. Introduction: why financial cooperatives matter now2. Finance, distribution and the economic objective of financial cooperatives 3. Financial cooperatives and income inequality: empirical evidence 4. Political economy theory for financial cooperative development5. Political institutions and financial cooperative development: empirical evidence 6.The origin and rationale for financial cooperative regulation in underdeveloped economies 7. Regulation, supervision and deposit insurance for financial cooperatives: an empirical investigationDiscussion and conclusions