Credit unions are not-for-profit co-operatives in which members' savings are used to provide cheap loans.
The kiranas should gang up into co-operatives so that they can buy in bulk from suppliers.
There is talk of setting up local health co-operatives, administered and paid for by villagers themselves.
Farm co-operatives, once a bastion of the platteland, have also gained a new lease on life.
The Treasury has particular responsibilities for financial mutuals, including building societies, mutual insurers, co-operatives and credit unions.
But now the stability enjoyed by the co-operatives faces a new threat from the global economic downturn.
In Sweden, parental co-operatives run many pre-schools, and they have a long history in the country.
This makes it likely that more care will be provided by co-operatives and deputising services in future.
The remainder consists of thousands of public-sector banks, co-operatives and savings banks, often with no clear owners.
But that would still leave other large, mutually owned firms, such as the co-operatives and some life assurers.
Marshal Suyanto, for instance, is opposed to dissolving the co-operatives, which he claims do much for troop welfare.
Private companies and co-operatives will be allowed to own land, farm machinery, boats and production equipment, but not buildings.
It co-exists with an expanding state sector and a host of government-funded co-operatives.
There is talk of forming co-operatives with the bottlers for some products, with Coke assuming more of their risk.
The One Million Trees initiative will help five coffee co-operatives grow shade trees to protect crops and establish tree nurseries.
Then, on February 15th, came the elucidation of Mr Cameron's three-year-old plan for public-sector organisations to be run as co-operatives.
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Many are tempted to join producer-owned co-operatives, where farmers can make higher profits by pooling resources and cutting out middlemen.
Of the 219 companies, foundations and co-operatives the armed forces admit to owning, only six have been assessed as commercially viable.
The next step, reported this week, will be to let transport and other service workers form co-operatives, currently restricted to farming.
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He said the bill would cut red tape and consolidate more than a dozen outdated pieces of legislation governing co-operatives and mutuals.
And she said that American co-operatives, councils and community organisations were "bringing people together to strike a better deal for their custom".
At least two such co-operatives, Dakota Growers Pasta Co. and the North American Bison Co-op, are doing well elsewhere in North Dakota.
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There is also a question of whether the GP co-operatives and other groups now responsible for care were ready for the responsibility.
David Cameron expanded on that theme in a speech on January 19th, hinting that the government would encourage the formation of co-operatives.
It was eventually accomplished by farmers' co-operatives, municipalities and public utilities backed by federal loans whose default rate was less than 1%.
Velasco hugely expanded the state's economic role, and formed thousands of co-operatives.
It recommended that Milk Marque should be broken up into competing co-operatives.
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Officials at the Ministry of Economy and Planning are mulling over whether to introduce greater flexibility to other activities, by using co-operatives, say.
Mr Kneese gave credit to the work of Genossenschaften, co-operatives run by industry and local government with the lightest of controls from central government.
The recent takeover by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena of Banca Agricola Mantovana has created a precedent for change among its fellow co-operatives.
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