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This paper presents forecasts for the Spanish economy from 2013 to 2019, handling different scenarios for economic recovery and future development. These scenarios depend to a great extent on current and future policies. The estimates are calculated from ad-hoc simulations using a general demand equilibrium model based on the life-cycle hypothesis of Ando and Modigliani and on Hall's model of Friedman's permanent income hypothesis with rational expectations. This paper offers an outlook based on a dynamic macroeconomic scenario. It also considers some recommendations at national and supranational level for the Spanish economy to perform well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some data-based evidence of the importance of health and social care cooperativism in Andalusia. It then compares this situation with occurrences in a different sector in Andalusia that were hailed as an opportunity for worker cooperative growth but in the end came to nothing of the sort. Despite the differences in the sectors involved, this retrospective sector-centred perspective may be helpful for understanding the system that shapes key strategic elements which explain how certain cooperative players can make a space for themselves in a tumultuous emerging sector such as health and social care. Lastly, the paper analyzes the strategies of cooperatives working in today's health and social care sector that have not just maintained but actually increased their presence in this area and, in the light of the data examined, ends with a number of remarks and reflections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crises require the invention of institutions that make it possible to combine capital accumulation and social progress. Given the values and principles they express, greater development of cooperatives and the social economy and of their integration with the socio-economic system could improve the creativity and long-term prospects of the latter. So why does the social economy not play a more active part in social concertation in Spain or in the Valencia Region of this country? Based on an evolutionist/regulationist theoretical framework, this situation is ascribed both to the participants' lack of support or opposition to the entry of new actors and to the organisational weakness of the cooperative movement itself. However, this paper shows that when social economy organisations take part in the social concert of a geographical area they make a difference, helping to bring about significant achievements in the areas of local development and structural change. This points to future lines of action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The various types of social enterprise include Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs), which have to compete in the market from a position of inferiority. This paper first examines different aspects of WISE management, emphasising the use of strategic management tools. After defining the theoretical aspects of WISEs and social management, it continues with an empirical study that focuses on WISEs in the Valencia region of Spain in connection with the main management variables in these enterprises. The results highlight the low levels of professional management skills and strategic analysis tool use. Strategic management therefore needs to be introduced into WISEs, while taking into account their peculiarities in the case of the Valencia region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to clarify and analyse certain issues that have been raised in relation to the possible need to draw up, develop and implement a standardized accounting model for political parties in Spain. Said sectorial and specific accounting regulations could mean a significant and vital stimulus for consolidating and boosting the inclusion of political groupings in the social environment to which they belong, thus increasing transparency and credibility of all their actions in the financial and economic spheres, especially in these times of severe financial crisis, when good management and availability of the money received from state public funds, becomes an unquestionable priority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fruit and vegetable cooperatives are major players in Mediterranean agriculture and play an important role in its development in Catalonia. This paper aims to analyse the economic and financial situation of this kind of cooperative in the province of Tarragona from an empirical study based on the analysis of the annual accounts for the years 2005 to 2009. A study has been carried out on the composition of their assets and liabilities, the main items in their profit and loss accounts and the principal economic and financial ratios of these entities using a dynamic analysis and an analysis based on scatter diagrams using linear regression. In this study it will be shown that these cooperatives find themselves in an unfavourable economic and financial situation, aggravated by the economic crisis and that size is not a determining factor for the improvement of said situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the characteristics that define microenterprise cooperation networks in Spain and their use of information and communication technologies. The article also aims to compare the results with those obtained by microenterprises that do not belong to a network and the results obtained by other statistical sources in order to try and prove that cooperation through networks of companies with fewer than ten employees may be the key to facilitating any innovative/entrepreneurial process and may help to improve competitiveness through the technological development of microenterprise in the market, thus promoting the economic development of the territory where they are located by generating added value and creating jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]