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This paper proposes future directions to strengthen the public policy environment for the Social Economy as a key agenda to building a more people-centred economy in Canada.

This paper highlights public policy trends and instruments from around the world that use the Social Economy as a framework to enhance socio-economic development and environmental sustainability.

The growing attention to the concept of the Social Economy (SE) is indicative of efforts to address inter-related social, economic and environmental issues affecting the sustainable development of people, communities, and nations, and the inter-dependent nature of global human development.

Thesis for SEE (Social,Ecological, and Economic)that combines the end usury, advances in local land reform, reconstructin of local food systems, and energy solutions that can decrease our dependence on fossil fuels.

Synthesis of the 50 proposals of Social and Solidarity economy to face the crisis.

Should we be happy about the crisis because it means the end of a failing model or be worried about the social consecuencies it brings along?

Stretegic challenges of the public policies that promote SSE at a local level

Does the crisis represent a momentum for solidarity economy?

The deep crisis of finance and capital is the logical outcome of capitalism deficiencies, which were already present before the crisis of 1929. It is urgent to take measures on the short, medium and long term, that aim at a real integrated development of the human being, as a person and as society. An endogenous, sovereign, solidarity-based and sustainable development, from and for the people. A new indicator is needed that bring us around such a development: the Index of Gross National Happiness, developed in Buthan.

Article of Infochange India, November 2008 and John Samuel's keynote speech delivered at the Asian Meeting on Solidarity Economy and Socially Responsible Business, Oct 2008
It is important for the corporate sector to move beyond the PR rhetoric of 'corporate social responsibility' to 'corporate accountability', says John Samuel, laying out the principles of the solidarity economy -- an alternative to the free-market economy -- where ethics of production, markets, investment and consumption is central to promoting sustainability.

Contribution to the systematization, the dissemination of ideas, tesis and practices that demonstrate that another world and another humang being is possible.

Paper prepared for the Seminar, Beyond Bretton Woods: the Transnational Economy in search for New Institutions", Mexico City, October 15-17, 2008
The paper summarizes some of the main arguments related to the creation of a new financial architecture for the region.

Artcile for Echoes, October 2008.
Today the bubble of international speculation is formed by all the moneys that circulate rapidly around the world chasing opportunities to reproduce without effort, without productive work, without creating real wealth, merely by changing hands, by speculating with foreign exchange, with products that are to be produced and traded in the future, foreign debt securities from indebted countries, and even money from drug trafficking, the arms trade and other illegal and immoral activities.

The 15,000 initiatives of SE identified in this mapping process show a social and economic rationality distinct from the one of capitalism.

Introduction to an issue of the Revue Tiers Monde (quarterly review published by the Institut d'Etude sur le Développement Economique et Social, Université de Paris 1) dedicated to the solidarity economy in southern countries. (Revue Tiers Monde, no. 190, July-August 2007, p. 1-9 - tiermond@univ-paris1.fr)

A proposal for a new international financial architecture with an International Board of Arbitration for Sovereign Debt.

An article from the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, Brazil.

Presentation at the 2nd International Social and Solidarity-based Economy Forum, Dec. 2004, Mexico. (Text available in French and Castilian only.)

The striking events of the World Social Forums, succeeded by the entry of new actors into the Brazilian political scenario launched in 2003, involved a set of both promising and unknown new possibilities for the solidarity economy.

An executive summary, in English and Dutch, of a five-part report on ecological debt. It can also be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the full report is available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

A well-being manifesto from NEF (New Economics Foundation) which seeks to answer the question "what would politics look like if promoting people's well-being was one of government's main aims?"

A report by the CSMO Économie sociale et action communautaire, Montreal, Quebec

A pamphlet written as an adaptation and synthesis of some solidarity economy concepts with other streams of thought and practice. The author’s aim is to help open space for useful conversations about a practice of solidarity economics that is adapted to the particular political, economic, and cultural conditions that are being faced in the United States.

A document taken from the panel: "Towards People’s Economy: Realities and Strategies from Local to Global" at the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai, India.

This document retraces the history of the "social issue" in the Alliance from 1994 to 2001. It highlights that the treatment of the social issue-from participation at the UN Social Development Summit to the construction of the Solidarity Socioeconomy Workgroup-had many shapes and evolutions.

The question of social responsibility is central to the ethical and economic reflection of Amartya Sem, Nobel Economics Prize winner in 1998. The link between ethics and economy is the theme of her work "Economy is a Moral Science" (Sem, 1999). Based on quotes from Sem's text, it seemed possible to the author that a charter of social and socioeconomic responsibilities could be drawn up.

Summary of the round table and workshops on Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and the Cooperative Movement during the 2003 World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

This Proposal Paper is a summary of the work by the Solidarity Finance Workshop.

The paper presents the theoretical foundations as well as the theoretical contributions of Feminist Ecological Economics. In addition, it provides some applications of Feminist Ecological Economics and discusses future trends and perspectives.