<alinea/> The reinforcement of IPRs protection resulting from the entry into force of the TRIPs agreement has significant consequences on access to medicine in poor countries. This very sensitive issue has provoked vivid debate and a great deal of controversy. Public/private partnership agreements...

This article critically examines the place given to institutions for the necessary change leading to a sustainable capitalism. Approaches promoting a new mode of consumption and multiactor partnerships are both based on a change process essentially depending on individual behaviours. We put the...

This article discusses the idea, which has become dominant among donors, that increasing the coordination of development aid would be an appropriate target in order to improve efficiency. First, we review donors’ initial observation about why aid is ineffective. Second, we present the agenda...

From the Gabonese experience, this article studies the way international pressures about “good governance” have an impact on the organization and the functioning of the health system in a developing country. At first governance and good governance are defined under a critical point of view....

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...