Although replacing the paradigm of development by that of poverty has allowed lifting part of the ambiguities arising from the very concept of development, it has led, for operational purposes, to a very restrictive understanding of poverty which occults the complexity and the multidimensional...

As the joint effects of market dynamics and government regulations meet to roll out third sector activities (we suggest the denomination: "equitable economic activities", or EEA) to the role of marginal social repair, our proposal is to admit non-mar-ket, non-competitive type of exchange as a...

For the future to be built, current questions are: economic life, to be adapted or transformed? Which way: by legal prescription, or through real emergence? Empirically, or aiming a people gathering coherence? Facing market: by regulation or changing for equity, a necessary base of solidarities?...