This article proposes a critical assessment of the socio-economic approaches of environment and sustainable development. Unlike the standard analysis which does not admit the embeddedness of economic, social and environmental dimensions, the socio-economic approaches seek to conceptualize these...

Are intellectual property rights and pharmaceuticals companies really guilty for the problem of access to medicines in poor countries ? A review of the literature shows that the issue is complex and must take account of the different causes and actors involved in the access to health care. We...

This article analyses the bases and the meaning of the concepts of human rights and global public goods, in the field of health. We wonder about the relevance of two approaches, the first one considers health as a public good, and the second one is a ??human rights based?? approach. We try to...