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graças à capacidade de canalizar os esforços em favor de um em- preendimento coletivo. O ideal de construir um modelo alternati- vo de organização econômica conquistou mais de uma geração de seguidores, mostrando que os propósitos dos pioneiros podiam ser aplicados a qualquer época.
O Sicredi consolidou-se como um empreendimento coletivo
Cooperative Bank in Brazil.
Sicredi, as a community financial institution, was consolidated. Nonetheless, modern times
called for a major change: The restructuring of Sicredi, which represented one of the most significant events in its journey, and paved the way for a partnership with Rabobank, one of the largest and most traditional cooperative credit systems in the world.
The path travelled by Sicredi was laid out by the dreams of many different people. Everything
that was built during more
than a century of Brazil’s history
of financial cooperativism is attributable to the ability to get everyone to work for the benefit of a collective undertaking. The dream of constructing an alternative economic model won over
multiple generations of followers, demonstrating that the pioneers’ ideas were timeless.
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