Company responsibility has been defined under several concepts: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsiveness, Corporate Social Performance etc. Nevertheless, a number of fundamental questions concerning responsibility remain unanswered. This article examines several of these...

</titre> The capability approach proposed by A. SEN constitutes a real change in the poverty analysis. It influenced considerably development indicators. However, the question who really is the subject behind this approach is at stake. In this paper we defend the idea that the conception of the person...

</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...

For a decade, Fair Trade undergoes a radical change. Private firms are more and more involve in fair trade value chains. On the based of quinoa case in Bolivia, we highlight that northern firms? strategies in fair trade niche could provok substantial negative effects. Especially, vulnerability...

The Samaritain dilemma (Buchanan, 1975) is often quoted to criticize development assistance to poor countries. In this context it is interpreted very far from the original formulation relative to hijackers. This paper analyses the original dilemma.and the further interpretations.