The Global Development Co-operative was officially launched on the same day as that of the UN International Year of Co-operatives 2012. It has been set up to provide development capital to those co-operatives who fall into what is known as the “missing middle” and have, up until now, had no access to capital in the […]

The Global Development Co-operative (GDC) was launched by the worldwide co-operative movement to support co-operative businesses in developing countries by raising US$50m to provide access to low cost loans for capital and infrastructure projects. The new investment concept has been developed by the UK’s The Co-operative Bank – part of the world’s largest consumer co-operative […]