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This article is an attempt to conceptually improve the notion of strong sustainability by creating a rapprochement between its core concept, critical natural capital, and the capability approach. We first demonstrate that the capability approach constitutes a relevant framework for analysing the...
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Child beggars form a specific category of child workers. They are generally associated with street-living children, as defined by Unicef. Analysis of begging thus generally focuses on children?s survival strategies. Using data from an exploratory survey conducted in Antananarivo in autumn 2009,...
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The associative or communal approach presupposes that the spontaneous organization of individuals and the issuing binding norms suffice to ensure adequate protection and a whole set of social goods and services. This article illustrates the difficulties that such a proposition may be confronted...
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</titre> Sustainable development leads to a marginalization of its social dimension. This dimension has acknowledged a deep analytical renewal these recent years. The interactive dynamics of poverty and inequality are nowadays addressed together. The social dimension has been incorporated into the...
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</titre> Within Fair Trade, labeled chains are often opposed to specialized chains. The first is for a number of years the subject of criticism. On the base of a set of ethical criteria, we argue that these criticisms are a bit steep. They forget the originality of labeled chains. Especially they are...
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We address in this paper the issue of the existence or not of a crowding-out effect of Corporate Social Responsability by government intervention through a lump sum tax. For this purpose, we build a model of impur altruism for firms. We show that in general it will happen to be that public...
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The purpose of this paper is to address three major shortcomings of Sen's capability approach with regard to sustainability: (i) First, the weakness of the ecological dimension of the capability framework. This can be overcome by devising a place where it is possible to relate the intrinsic and...
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In a context where credit is squeezed, the shocks to which household are exposed impact on child work. This article analyses the impact of a drought on the Morondava rural district in Madagascar in 2006. This is a rice growing area. We used data from the surveys conducted by the Réseau des...
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Le cadre usuel de la réflexion sur la responsabilité de l'entreprise est désormais celui de l'approche par les parties-prenantes. Ce cadre semble pourtant assez mal approprié à la prise en compte de l'environnement tant celui-ci pose des problèmes spécifiques. L'objet de cet article est...
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Le thème de la responsabilité de l'entreprise connaît des phénomènes de mode largement dépendant des médias. Mais au-delà des mouvements de mode largement dépendant des médias. Mais au-delà des mouvements médiatiques, la responsabilité de l'entreprise est une question qui depuis...
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