Dame Pauline Green- Chair of the UN Advisory Group for the International Year of Co-operatives 2012

In celebration of the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives 2012, bankmecuTV profiles Dame Pauline Green, Chair of the UN Advisory Group for the International Year. Co-operatives are certainly not 'business as usual' says Dame Pauline .They are a huge global movement of 'people centred businesses' with a social agenda. There are one billion member owners of co-operatives across the world and hundreds and thousands of co-operatives globally -- together they employ 100 million people. The largest 300 co-operatives, alone, are worth 1.6 trillion US dollars, equivalent to the GDP of Spain the world's 9th largest economy. The co-operative's time is now, she argues. They can be a powerful catalyst for change and will play a critical role in ushering in a new era of socially responsible business.

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