Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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I L O a n d C o o p e r a t i v e s-C O O P N E W S N o 1 , 2 0 1 2
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/documents/publication/wcms_176632.pdf
Resilience of the Cooperative Business Model in Times of Crisis
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/documents/publication/wcms_108416.pdf
An education initiative in International Year of Co-ops
An education initiative which will see institutions such as universities and schools engage with the co-operative sector has been launched in the United States.
The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) call their initiative the "Co-operative Teach-In" and was prompted by part of the International Year of Co-operatives.
Its aim is to raise awareness in these teaching institutions about co-operatives and the benefits they have in enacting change in local and global communities.
"This initiative connects campuses with co-operatives, facilitating an exchange of information, ideas, tactics, and goals," says TESA in an information release. "The Cooperative Teach-in allows people who are interested in a wide variety of issues to engage with the national co-operative movement and see how co-ops relate to them: from workers’ rights to economic development, democratic control, environmental justice, fair trade, community empowerment, social entrepreneurship, food justice, and small farmers."
The initiative has been piloted in New England for several months and is now being taken nationwide.
TESA suggests several ways of taking part:
Sign up for our “Campus - Cooperative Connections”,which puts you on a map that you can use to connect your campus with a co-operative, or your co-operative with a campus, to set up an event, program, or project on co-ops and the co-op movement. We will also help facilitate connections between co-ops and campuses.You can read testimonials here from people who’ve taken part in this initiative.
Browse our ready-to-use educational workshops and resources to engage co-ops and campuses as well as our selection of recommended readings on co-ops. We've just started compiling these resources, so they will grow significantly as the year goes on. You can help us grow this library by submitting resources for all to use for free.
Get in touch with us toaccess a team that will help you develop custom educational resources (projects, events, courses, programs, materials, and more) for free during 2012. We will also help you make connections with a campus or a co-op to set up a co-operative education experience.
In the near future, we will also have a showcase for highlighting campus projects, events, and programs on co-ops so that campuses, students, and co-ops can show off their work and make sure it’s make an impact in the world.
Stay up to date with the Cooperative Teach-In by following us on Facebook and Twitter as well as signing up for our low-traffic e-mail list. Please also help us get the word out by sharing this project via e-mail and social media!
The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) call their initiative the "Co-operative Teach-In" and was prompted by part of the International Year of Co-operatives.
Its aim is to raise awareness in these teaching institutions about co-operatives and the benefits they have in enacting change in local and global communities.
"This initiative connects campuses with co-operatives, facilitating an exchange of information, ideas, tactics, and goals," says TESA in an information release. "The Cooperative Teach-in allows people who are interested in a wide variety of issues to engage with the national co-operative movement and see how co-ops relate to them: from workers’ rights to economic development, democratic control, environmental justice, fair trade, community empowerment, social entrepreneurship, food justice, and small farmers."
The initiative has been piloted in New England for several months and is now being taken nationwide.
TESA suggests several ways of taking part:
Sign up for our “Campus - Cooperative Connections”,which puts you on a map that you can use to connect your campus with a co-operative, or your co-operative with a campus, to set up an event, program, or project on co-ops and the co-op movement. We will also help facilitate connections between co-ops and campuses.You can read testimonials here from people who’ve taken part in this initiative.
Browse our ready-to-use educational workshops and resources to engage co-ops and campuses as well as our selection of recommended readings on co-ops. We've just started compiling these resources, so they will grow significantly as the year goes on. You can help us grow this library by submitting resources for all to use for free.
Get in touch with us toaccess a team that will help you develop custom educational resources (projects, events, courses, programs, materials, and more) for free during 2012. We will also help you make connections with a campus or a co-op to set up a co-operative education experience.
In the near future, we will also have a showcase for highlighting campus projects, events, and programs on co-ops so that campuses, students, and co-ops can show off their work and make sure it’s make an impact in the world.
Stay up to date with the Cooperative Teach-In by following us on Facebook and Twitter as well as signing up for our low-traffic e-mail list. Please also help us get the word out by sharing this project via e-mail and social media!
Intelligent economic ideas focus of Imagine2012
Behavioural economists demonstrate that if business owners try to motivate their workers with financial incentives productivity often declines.
By offering employees workplace autonomy, the opportunity to excel and improve the world, productivity is raised.
The Imagine 2012 conference in Quebec City in October will focus on intelligent economic ideas like the above.
It begins with the proposal that to "Build a Better World" first a better economy must be built.The Imagine 2012: Conference on Co-operative Economics will provide co-operative leaders with ideas and tools to build a better world based on a better economy.
Internationally renowned proponents of a ‘new economy’ will explore the relationships of their specialties to a cohesive body of “co-operative economics” which could be utilized internationally, at the conference.
Imagine 2012 and the Summit are the product of collaboration by MMCCU, the International Co-operative Alliance and the Desjardins Group, Canada’s largest co-operative financial services provider, and a leader in co-op development.
For more information contact: Tom Webb, Imagine 2012 Manager at tom.webb@smu.ca
By offering employees workplace autonomy, the opportunity to excel and improve the world, productivity is raised.
The Imagine 2012 conference in Quebec City in October will focus on intelligent economic ideas like the above.
It begins with the proposal that to "Build a Better World" first a better economy must be built.The Imagine 2012: Conference on Co-operative Economics will provide co-operative leaders with ideas and tools to build a better world based on a better economy.
Internationally renowned proponents of a ‘new economy’ will explore the relationships of their specialties to a cohesive body of “co-operative economics” which could be utilized internationally, at the conference.
Imagine 2012 and the Summit are the product of collaboration by MMCCU, the International Co-operative Alliance and the Desjardins Group, Canada’s largest co-operative financial services provider, and a leader in co-op development.
For more information contact: Tom Webb, Imagine 2012 Manager at tom.webb@smu.ca
Dame Pauline Green pays tribute to "stoic" Japanese co-operators
The ICA President, Dame Pauline Green, has paid tribute to the Japanese co-operative sector and its recovery efforts following the Great Eastern Japan earthquake of March 2011.
She recognised the stoicism and resilience of the Japanese people in the face of the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the country's north-east a year ago.
“On the occasion of one year passing since Japan’s earthquake, in this, the International Year of Co-operatives, I ask co-operative businesses to remember those co-operators who lost their lives, their livelihoods and their possessions in the disaster,” said Dame Pauline.
“The solidarity demonstrated by our co-operative movement following the devastating earthquake shows how well our model of business does the job of rebuilding, fundraising and co-ordinating a large scale relief effort.”
Dame Pauline praised the recovery efforts of the co-operative sector which has seen immediate relief work such as the provision of food, clothing and shelter, followed by more permanent solutions including entire villages re-housed on higher ground, training programs to help those who lost livelihoods find alternative work and new co-operative ventures sparked.
The International Co-operative Alliance raised funds for Japan’s co-operatives in response to the crisis. Dame Pauline said one of the tremendously positive aspects of the global co-operative movement was that in times of need people from around the globe came together to assist their fellow co-operators.
“The co-operative movement does not have a global brand like Nike or Walmart, nor do we want one. We have something much greater - a huge network of locally-based, community-owned, autonomous, sovereign, independent businesses. What unites us is a common set of values and principles that underpin all our businesses and a unique democratic ownership model that puts people at its core. We seek to serve human need - not human greed.”
The magnitude nine earthquake which shook Japan's Honshu island on March 11 last year resulted in the deaths of more than 20,000 people. The earthquake and the subsequent tsunami created a nuclear crisis.
On the anniversary, the ICA and Euricse-partnered stories.coop campaign told the story of the co-operative relief efforts of some of the members of the Japanese Worker's Co-operative Union.
Read more about Japan's efforts at the Global News Hub.
She recognised the stoicism and resilience of the Japanese people in the face of the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the country's north-east a year ago.
“On the occasion of one year passing since Japan’s earthquake, in this, the International Year of Co-operatives, I ask co-operative businesses to remember those co-operators who lost their lives, their livelihoods and their possessions in the disaster,” said Dame Pauline.
“The solidarity demonstrated by our co-operative movement following the devastating earthquake shows how well our model of business does the job of rebuilding, fundraising and co-ordinating a large scale relief effort.”
Dame Pauline praised the recovery efforts of the co-operative sector which has seen immediate relief work such as the provision of food, clothing and shelter, followed by more permanent solutions including entire villages re-housed on higher ground, training programs to help those who lost livelihoods find alternative work and new co-operative ventures sparked.
The International Co-operative Alliance raised funds for Japan’s co-operatives in response to the crisis. Dame Pauline said one of the tremendously positive aspects of the global co-operative movement was that in times of need people from around the globe came together to assist their fellow co-operators.
“The co-operative movement does not have a global brand like Nike or Walmart, nor do we want one. We have something much greater - a huge network of locally-based, community-owned, autonomous, sovereign, independent businesses. What unites us is a common set of values and principles that underpin all our businesses and a unique democratic ownership model that puts people at its core. We seek to serve human need - not human greed.”
The magnitude nine earthquake which shook Japan's Honshu island on March 11 last year resulted in the deaths of more than 20,000 people. The earthquake and the subsequent tsunami created a nuclear crisis.
On the anniversary, the ICA and Euricse-partnered stories.coop campaign told the story of the co-operative relief efforts of some of the members of the Japanese Worker's Co-operative Union.
Read more about Japan's efforts at the Global News Hub.
Desjardins' co-founder on International Women's Day
Co-operative businesses gave women equal voting rights almost a century before most parliaments of the world did. “On this International Women’s Day in 2012 which is also the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives, I am asking co-operative businesses to follow that example and put more women at the core of their businesses”, said Dame Pauline Green, the first female president in the history of the International Co-operative Alliance.
Dame Pauline, who leads the largest global business sector by number of shareholders and employees, acknowledged the millions of women who have helped make a democratic, people-led business model the most popular in the world today. But she also recognized the lack of official recognition of the participation of women in rural co-operatives in developing nations.
Dame Pauline paid tribute to Dorimène Desjardins who co-founded the largest co-operative financial group in Canada, and the sixth largest financial institution in Canada. When she died in 1932 a local paper wrote that without Dorimène Desjardins, “Desjardins caisses (local co-ops) would have probably not existed”. She had no job title and no salary but the impact of her contribution was as significant as her husband Alphonse Desjardins.
“It is certainly not by sheer luck that Desjardins Group is today the largest Canadian private organization led by a woman, Monique F. Leroux” she said.
Dame Pauline highlighted the global leadership role Desjardins’ CEO Monique Leroux had played in implementing governance practices characterized by a broader role for local co- ops and members. At the same time Desjardins Group reported record surplus earnings and member dividends. Desjardins has been recognised as one of Canada’s Top 100 employers in 2012 as well as being ranked 18th in Global Finance's World's 50 Safest Banks.
Co-operative businesses are founded on the principle of one member one vote. Early examples in Rochdale, England (considered the birthplace of the modern co-operative model) awarded women equal membership rights to men, at a time when women were still excluded from owning property. This was 88 years before British women got the full vote. In Quebec, Canada, the Desjardins caisses were often managed de facto by women, especially in rural areas. Married women until 1964 were denied the right to sign any legal document without their husband’s consent.
Dame Pauline said there were multitudes of women working in co-operatives who were largely unrecognized outside their communities. Co-operatives like The Argan Tree, Cocoki, and the co-operatives which form part of the SEWA network in India were all examples of women managing profitable co-operative businesses. These case studies are highlighted on 2012.coop the global website for the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives 2012 and stories.coop the global campaign of co-operative stories.
See more stories on women in co-operatives at the Global News Hub.
Dame Pauline, who leads the largest global business sector by number of shareholders and employees, acknowledged the millions of women who have helped make a democratic, people-led business model the most popular in the world today. But she also recognized the lack of official recognition of the participation of women in rural co-operatives in developing nations.
Dame Pauline paid tribute to Dorimène Desjardins who co-founded the largest co-operative financial group in Canada, and the sixth largest financial institution in Canada. When she died in 1932 a local paper wrote that without Dorimène Desjardins, “Desjardins caisses (local co-ops) would have probably not existed”. She had no job title and no salary but the impact of her contribution was as significant as her husband Alphonse Desjardins.
“It is certainly not by sheer luck that Desjardins Group is today the largest Canadian private organization led by a woman, Monique F. Leroux” she said.
Dame Pauline highlighted the global leadership role Desjardins’ CEO Monique Leroux had played in implementing governance practices characterized by a broader role for local co- ops and members. At the same time Desjardins Group reported record surplus earnings and member dividends. Desjardins has been recognised as one of Canada’s Top 100 employers in 2012 as well as being ranked 18th in Global Finance's World's 50 Safest Banks.
Co-operative businesses are founded on the principle of one member one vote. Early examples in Rochdale, England (considered the birthplace of the modern co-operative model) awarded women equal membership rights to men, at a time when women were still excluded from owning property. This was 88 years before British women got the full vote. In Quebec, Canada, the Desjardins caisses were often managed de facto by women, especially in rural areas. Married women until 1964 were denied the right to sign any legal document without their husband’s consent.
Dame Pauline said there were multitudes of women working in co-operatives who were largely unrecognized outside their communities. Co-operatives like The Argan Tree, Cocoki, and the co-operatives which form part of the SEWA network in India were all examples of women managing profitable co-operative businesses. These case studies are highlighted on 2012.coop the global website for the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives 2012 and stories.coop the global campaign of co-operative stories.
See more stories on women in co-operatives at the Global News Hub.
ICA Expo gets support for sponsor-a-coop program
The Dutch-based agri-development agency Agriterra has stepped in to ensure two Ugandan co-operatives will be represented at the ICA Expo in October.
Under ICA Expo's sponsorship initiative bigger and wealthier organisations can sponsor smaller co-operatives in developing countries so that they can exhibit in Manchester.
Agriterra, whose stated aim is to promote self help economic activities in developing countries, has sponsored two members of Uganda Co-operative Alliance.
Elizabeth Nsimadala of the Tigebwa Rural Producer Organization will exhibit banana wine while Nimrod Wambete of the Gumutindo Coffee Enterprise will show its coffee products.
Meanwhile, one of the ICA Expo's mentors, the late Ivano Barberini has been recognised with the Fondazione Barberini being offered a booth at the expo from which to promote the activities of the foundation.
The team from ICA Expo have also confirmed the participation of 10 co-operatives from Romania, which work in the area of handicrafts and clothing. And joining the expo again is East Timor with an exhibit of its coffee products.
This means that with a total, so far, of 35 countries (and more to come), this will be the biggest ICA Expo since its inception in 2008
Under ICA Expo's sponsorship initiative bigger and wealthier organisations can sponsor smaller co-operatives in developing countries so that they can exhibit in Manchester.
Agriterra, whose stated aim is to promote self help economic activities in developing countries, has sponsored two members of Uganda Co-operative Alliance.
Elizabeth Nsimadala of the Tigebwa Rural Producer Organization will exhibit banana wine while Nimrod Wambete of the Gumutindo Coffee Enterprise will show its coffee products.
Meanwhile, one of the ICA Expo's mentors, the late Ivano Barberini has been recognised with the Fondazione Barberini being offered a booth at the expo from which to promote the activities of the foundation.
The team from ICA Expo have also confirmed the participation of 10 co-operatives from Romania, which work in the area of handicrafts and clothing. And joining the expo again is East Timor with an exhibit of its coffee products.
This means that with a total, so far, of 35 countries (and more to come), this will be the biggest ICA Expo since its inception in 2008
GDC attracts more support for its plans
The Global Development Co-operative (GDC) continues to add financial partners to its funding program.
Canadian co-operative insurer The Co-operators has pledged to invest $US500,000 in the development co-operative. This follows an earlier pledge made another insurance group, the mutual insurer Royal London.
"The Global Development Co-operative is an innovative way of allowing co-ops around the globe to support those in the developing world that play such important roles in bolstering sustainable economic development in their communities," said Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO of The Co-operators. "This will be an important legacy of the International Year of Co-operatives, which will empower people and help them lift themselves out of poverty for a long time after 2012."
Dame Pauline Green, President of the ICA, said: "We're delighted The Co-operators is supporting the Global Development Co-operative and joining other members to help communities in the developing world. With the global movement now working closer together than ever before as a result of the International Year, we believe many other businesses from across the movement will want to play a part in this initiative."
With Deutsche Bank Foundation also agreeing to provide funding, it is not only co-operatives that are supporting the GDC.
The other co-operatives which have taken up the opportunity to provide funding to the GDC include The Co-operative Group, Midcounties Co-operative, Crédit Coopératif, All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Co-operatives and the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative (IFFCO).
Canadian co-operative insurer The Co-operators has pledged to invest $US500,000 in the development co-operative. This follows an earlier pledge made another insurance group, the mutual insurer Royal London.
"The Global Development Co-operative is an innovative way of allowing co-ops around the globe to support those in the developing world that play such important roles in bolstering sustainable economic development in their communities," said Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO of The Co-operators. "This will be an important legacy of the International Year of Co-operatives, which will empower people and help them lift themselves out of poverty for a long time after 2012."
Dame Pauline Green, President of the ICA, said: "We're delighted The Co-operators is supporting the Global Development Co-operative and joining other members to help communities in the developing world. With the global movement now working closer together than ever before as a result of the International Year, we believe many other businesses from across the movement will want to play a part in this initiative."
With Deutsche Bank Foundation also agreeing to provide funding, it is not only co-operatives that are supporting the GDC.
The other co-operatives which have taken up the opportunity to provide funding to the GDC include The Co-operative Group, Midcounties Co-operative, Crédit Coopératif, All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Co-operatives and the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative (IFFCO).
IYC launched in New Zealand to public applause on co-ops
Co-operatives put long-term gain and stability ahead of short-term profits according to a survey conducted by the New Zealand Co-operatives Association.
The survey - which also showed that 71 per cent of New Zealanders have less trust or totally distrust financial companies - was released on the occasion of the launch of the UN International Year of Co-operatives in late March.
"The impact of this lack of trust has also flowed through to the level of confidence in investment in general," Chairman of the Association Blue Read told launch attendees. "Fifty per cent of respondents rated themselves as “uncomfortable” about investing in publicly listed companies on the New Zealand share market."
Read pointed out that co-ops's focus on the long-term had assisted their sustainability. "This has helped our co-ops come through difficult financial times relatively unscathed, compared to many investor-driven companies," said Read.
However, he highlighted that co-ops do not communicate adequately with the general public.
"Cooperatives have traditionally shied away from profile raising," he said.
"Cooperatives often don’t perceive the need to communicate their successes any wider than their own membership, meaning the wider community remains uninformed – perhaps also missing the opportunity to become involved."
Read said more than 70 per cent of respondents believed that there was not enough awareness about the difference between co-ops and investor-owned companies, and 60 per cent would like to see universities, polytechnics, and the NZ accounting and legal professions offering more understanding of co-ops.
"The International Year of Cooperatives is a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the cooperative business model, and this function tonight joins New Zealand with people in many nations around the world who are also celebrating cooperative and mutual enterprise," he said. Rabobank's Piet Moerland attended the launch and ICA President Dame Pauline Green gave an address via video.
"For us, it’s an opportunity to work with government and professional groups to facilitate an environment which supports the cooperative and mutual way of doing business in New Zealand," said Read.
The New Zealand government has funded a statistical exercise on the co-operative sector.
The statistics gathered show that about three per cent of New Zealand GDP comes from the co-operative sector. And the top 40 New Zealand cooperatives employ about 50,000 people between them.
"Our own research indicates that this top 40 had a combined turnover of more than $NZ39 billion in the 2010/2011 financial year; an increase of over 10 per cent over the previous year," said Read.
This big increase comes on the back of a economic stagnation in many economies around the world.
"By way of comparison, in the United Kingdom, long considered the home of cooperative enterprise, there are 10 times the number of cooperatives, employing five times the staff of their New Zealand counterparts," said Read.
"But the combined turnover of the UK cooperatives is not even double that of the combined revenues generated in this country."
To hear the interview with Blue Read visit: http://newzealand2012.coop/node/172
The survey - which also showed that 71 per cent of New Zealanders have less trust or totally distrust financial companies - was released on the occasion of the launch of the UN International Year of Co-operatives in late March.
"The impact of this lack of trust has also flowed through to the level of confidence in investment in general," Chairman of the Association Blue Read told launch attendees. "Fifty per cent of respondents rated themselves as “uncomfortable” about investing in publicly listed companies on the New Zealand share market."
Read pointed out that co-ops's focus on the long-term had assisted their sustainability. "This has helped our co-ops come through difficult financial times relatively unscathed, compared to many investor-driven companies," said Read.
However, he highlighted that co-ops do not communicate adequately with the general public.
"Cooperatives have traditionally shied away from profile raising," he said.
"Cooperatives often don’t perceive the need to communicate their successes any wider than their own membership, meaning the wider community remains uninformed – perhaps also missing the opportunity to become involved."
Read said more than 70 per cent of respondents believed that there was not enough awareness about the difference between co-ops and investor-owned companies, and 60 per cent would like to see universities, polytechnics, and the NZ accounting and legal professions offering more understanding of co-ops.
"The International Year of Cooperatives is a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the cooperative business model, and this function tonight joins New Zealand with people in many nations around the world who are also celebrating cooperative and mutual enterprise," he said. Rabobank's Piet Moerland attended the launch and ICA President Dame Pauline Green gave an address via video.
"For us, it’s an opportunity to work with government and professional groups to facilitate an environment which supports the cooperative and mutual way of doing business in New Zealand," said Read.
The New Zealand government has funded a statistical exercise on the co-operative sector.
The statistics gathered show that about three per cent of New Zealand GDP comes from the co-operative sector. And the top 40 New Zealand cooperatives employ about 50,000 people between them.
"Our own research indicates that this top 40 had a combined turnover of more than $NZ39 billion in the 2010/2011 financial year; an increase of over 10 per cent over the previous year," said Read.
This big increase comes on the back of a economic stagnation in many economies around the world.
"By way of comparison, in the United Kingdom, long considered the home of cooperative enterprise, there are 10 times the number of cooperatives, employing five times the staff of their New Zealand counterparts," said Read.
"But the combined turnover of the UK cooperatives is not even double that of the combined revenues generated in this country."
To hear the interview with Blue Read visit: http://newzealand2012.coop/node/172
ICA represents one billion co-operators, new statistics show
The International Co-operative Alliance represents close to one billion co-operators, according to new data. On this basis, the global representative body for co-operatives is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in the world today by the number of people it represents, according to available figures.
These statistics are calculated on the membership statistics from ICA's 267 members proper from 96 countries.
The country with the largest number of individual members indirectly represented by the ICA is the United States with 305.6 million members. There are nearly 30,000 co-operatives in the US.
The next countries are in Asia, with China following next behind the US with 160.8 million individual members. And then India with 97.6 million individual members.
Together these three countries account for nearly half of the members that the ICA represents indirectly.
The fourth largest number of members is in Japan with 75.8 million individual members - one in three Japanese households hold membership of a co-operative - and then Indonesia with 40.6 million individual members.
All in all, four of the top five countries - by membership that the ICA represents - are in Asia.
France is the first European country with 32.4 million individual co-operative members, represented through their organisations by the ICA.
Iran has 25.5 million individual co-operative members which are represented by the ICA.
Canada, where one in four people are members of a co-operative, then follows with 18.1 million.
The United Kingdom has 11.5 million individual members and Bangladesh follows not far behind with 11 million individual members.
These statistics are calculated on the membership statistics from ICA's 267 members proper from 96 countries.
The country with the largest number of individual members indirectly represented by the ICA is the United States with 305.6 million members. There are nearly 30,000 co-operatives in the US.
The next countries are in Asia, with China following next behind the US with 160.8 million individual members. And then India with 97.6 million individual members.
Together these three countries account for nearly half of the members that the ICA represents indirectly.
The fourth largest number of members is in Japan with 75.8 million individual members - one in three Japanese households hold membership of a co-operative - and then Indonesia with 40.6 million individual members.
All in all, four of the top five countries - by membership that the ICA represents - are in Asia.
France is the first European country with 32.4 million individual co-operative members, represented through their organisations by the ICA.
Iran has 25.5 million individual co-operative members which are represented by the ICA.
Canada, where one in four people are members of a co-operative, then follows with 18.1 million.
The United Kingdom has 11.5 million individual members and Bangladesh follows not far behind with 11 million individual members.
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