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in Europe cooperative societies emerged as self - help organizations, but in developing countries certain measuıes are needed for the establishmcnt of cooperative societies. Main reasons of failure of the cooperative societies in developing countries are the lack of minimum conditions necessary for cooperative movement and the appropriation of the unrelated aims to cooperatives.
State - sponsorship of the cooperative movement does not always resul t in the emergence of cooperative societies as self - help organizations. Financial support of the State comes with State conlrol. Inten-sive State intervention on cooperative societies les-sens the interest of the members tovvards cooperative societies and thus State intervention and control on cooperatives increases.
The povver of a cooperative society is determined by the want of the members’ to promote their econo-mic interests and by their active participation in cooperative management and control. When the aims of a cooperative society is determined by an outside for-ce and when these aims do not coincide vvith those of the members, a cooperative society can not trans-form into a povverful self - help organization in time.