The Role of Cooperative Economy in Fulfilling the Requirements of Resistance Economy

Resistance economy as a main economic strategy in decade of justice and progress has its requirements. Peoplization of the economy and reducing the dependency to oil revenues are the main pillars of Resistance economy in the long run. It seems that cooperative economy on the basis of human and social capital and providing financial capital through micro savings can help to the fulfillment of requirements of resistance economy via its leverages: economic activities and value-creation in micro and macro levels, entrepreneurship and just distribution of wealth and revenues. According to general policies of Article 44, cooperative sector have to occupy 25 percent of GDP. However, the evidences show that there is a huge gap in this regard. Structural weaknesses as well as failure to fulfill the projected incentives communicated by the Supreme Leader are the main reasons of this problem and it requires the immediate attention of authorities.