Very few exists in China. They simply could not compete with private enterprises.
That's weird, I've heard the opposite in general, that year by year China has more new coops than anywhere else. Although I suppose that's probably not a high bar to clear, and probably included "like one person owns a thing and does a business with it" as a coop since technically a business with one worker that's owned by that worker is a worker-owned business.
I remember this UN paper, which cites China’s National Market Administration State Bureau, which says that there were 2.13 million farmer cooperatives in 2018. Could it be that in the census, “enterprises” are a specific classification of business, rather than all business in general, and that means that these farmer cooperatives are excluded?
That's weird, I've heard the opposite in general, that year by year China has more new coops than anywhere else. Although I suppose that's probably not a high bar to clear, and probably included "like one person owns a thing and does a business with it" as a coop since technically a business with one worker that's owned by that worker is a worker-owned business.
Italy would actually win. Or the province Emilia-Romagna at the provincial level. Sometging like 30% of the economy is coöperatives.
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I remember this UN paper, which cites China’s National Market Administration State Bureau, which says that there were 2.13 million farmer cooperatives in 2018. Could it be that in the census, “enterprises” are a specific classification of business, rather than all business in general, and that means that these farmer cooperatives are excluded?
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