合作社在意大利经济中的地位意大利的经济发展始终具有以下特点:劳动力过剩,国内市场比较狭窄,有大量小企业。个体所有者和其他居民阶层为保护自己的利益把物资和劳动联合起来,曾经是自救的出路。这就是意大利被列为合作社经济成分成为经济发展重要因素的国家行列的原因。在许多发达资本主义国家合作社在国内生产总值形成中所占的比重只有百分之几(从3%到5%), The Role of Cooperatives in the Italian Economy The economic development of Italy has always had the following characteristics: surplus labor, a narrow domestic market and a large number of small businesses. For the protection of their own interests, individual owners and other sectors of the population united their work with materials and used to be a way out for self-help. This is why Italy has been listed as a country whose economic composition has become an important factor in economic development. In many developed capitalist countries cooperatives account for only a few percent (from 3% to 5%) of GNP formation,