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Italian vs Croatian cooperative system

The aim of this paper is to research legislation, taxes and subvention system of Italian and Croatian cooperatives as well as to compare economic efficiency through individual and aggregate importance. In this paper secondary data sources are used, scientific and expert references, policy documents of relevant institutions, laws and strategies. Croatian and Italian cooperative system have different effect on the economy which is identified through basic indicators of cooperative development in both countries. Italy is having more favorable economic indicators in cooperative share in GDP (8, 5), cooperative employees in the total labor force (10, 9), cooperative member in the total population (16, 2), average cooperative employees per cooperative (6, 5), average members per cooperative (230) etc. Agricultural cooperatives dominate in the Croatian cooperative sector (40, 7), but in comparison with other EU member cooperatives achieved marginal business results in the production, sale and turnover of agricultural products and compared with Italy (6, 3%) the most significant in recent years are the social cooperatives especially in crisis. In order to achieve better economic affect through cooperative system Croatia should have law regulation changes, better organization of support center and development of cooperative banking association

cooperatives ; development ; employment ; laws ; Italy ; Croatia

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