Rural credit cooperatives in Spain (1890 – 1935):A good start was not enough.
Year of publication: 2010
Issue: 10
Type: Working paper
Abstract
The spread of agrarian credit cooperativism in Spain (1890?1934) was done under a variety of ideological and economic orientations. This article focuses on the construction of a few tools and indicators to explain the characteristics of agricultural credit cooperatives. An analysis of financial operations of rural savings banks is related with socio?political aspects that influenced their development; this analysis helps us to explain the relative success of German credit cooperative models adopted in the context of Spanish agriculture, as happened on European periphery.