Using Portugal, Spain and Italy as case studies, examines the relationship between social protection and local economic development.

Using Portugal, Spain and Italy as case studies, examines the relationship between social protection and local economic development.

Social economy could be considered a response to the current eco-socio-economic crisis, in fact the first crisis of the globalization era. Developing social economy could mean sustainable, largely non-exportable jobs, social inclusion, improvement of local social services, and territorial...

In this paper, a critical view is presented concerning the internal organization of the exporting sector of Almería: the most important problem observed is that the marketing system is “atomised†and very heterogeneous. Secondly, this sector is compared with the other principal tomato...

This article continues an article written by the same author and published by CIRIEC-España in 1997 (no. 25). It analyses social economy at three cognitive levels: first, as a social reality (Social Economy); second, as a scientific discipline which studies its previous reality (the science of...