International
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Canada: Housing coops are getting more affordable, says report
OTTAWA– A recent report comparing housing charges in housing coops housing with rents in similar private market rental buildings was released. It looked at Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa between 2006…
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ICA Board meets in Bulgaria
SOFIA-The President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev inaugurated the opening session of the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] board meeting that took place from March 7-9, 2023 in Sofia. The leaders…
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Regulators take over as big Silicon Valley Bank collapses
NEW YORK-US regulators have shut down Silicon Valley Bank [SVB] and taken control of its customer deposits in the largest failure of a US bank 2008 financial crisis. The moves came as…
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Brazil’s Unimed chooses HPE GreenLake to drive innovation
BRASIL-Unimed Grande Florianópolis, a branch of Brazil’s largest medical cooperative group recently announced it had chosen the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to accelerate innovation and deliver new digital touchpoints and services to…
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Here is ICA Gender Equality Committee Statement on the International Women’s Day 2023
The International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] Gender Equality Committee has issued a statement as the world marks International Women’s Day 2023: Read on. Technology has a great impact on our daily personal and…
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ICA welcomes new member from Nepal
The International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] has welcomed a new member in the name of the Nepal Federation of Savings and Credit Co-operatives Union [NEFSCUN] from Nepal. NEFSCUN is the member-based national apex organization of Savings…
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Global coffee exports down 15 percent in January 2023
KAMPALA-Global green bean exports in January 2023 declined by 15 percent to 8.69 million bags, as compared with 10.23mln bags in the same month of the previous year, International Coffee Organisation [ICIO]…
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Indian university commended for launching coop course
NEW DELHI– Prof Yeshwanth Dongre, the vice chancellor of Chanakya University Bengaluru recently inaugurated Diploma in Cooperation and Banking Management [DCBM] course organised by Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University…
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ICA’s Bruno Roelants’ passionate message as he says bye to global cooperative movement
KAMPALA-Since January 12, 2023, the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] has been calling for candidates to apply for the position of ICA Director General. The successful candidate will succeed Bruno Roelants, who, after…
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Ukrainian cooperative movement still needs more help as war escalates
BRUSSELS-The Cooperative Movement in war-ravaged Ukraine still needs more help, according to the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] which has contacted Illia Gorokhovskyi, COOP Ukraine’s chairman. ICA says it recently contacted Gorokhovsky to…
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