Strategies to promote business associativity schemes, accompanied by policies that foster appropriate quality standards and technological innovation, tend to increase both the productivity and competitiveness of the business sector. An efficient business association scheme that has been developing in Peru is the cooperative model, which is of particular importance for regional economic development and social inclusion. It is estimated that there are more than 1,000 active cooperatives in Peru, both urban and rural, which together bring together more than one million members.
