Alternative Paths and Models for Socio-Economic Development
Track Moderators:
Titular Professor Raymond Saner
University of Basel, Switzerland
Professor Lichia Yiu
University of Basel, Switzerland
President of CSEND, Geneva, Switzerland
Track Details:
Description
Implementing the 2030 Agenda through its 17 development goals requires adequate finances, technical knowledge, robust institutional infrastructure, and political will to bring this broad and much-needed endeavor to a successful end by 2030.
This track welcomes contributions by scholars and practitioners who can help us explore alternative economic futures for instance of the following strands of socio-economic development
- Cooperatives. Cooperatives create goods and services and at the same time often contribute to the community. This sub-track welcomes case examples and regional as well as national reports of cooperatives’ contributions to the economy and society.
- Social and Solidarity Economy. The social and solidarity economy encompasses enterprises, organizations and other entities that are engaged in economic, social and environmental activities to serve the collective and/or general interest. Papers are welcomed who discuss SSEs and provide case examples
- Self-Management, Social Ownership, and Self-Managed Enterprises. In the former Yugoslavia, such forms of socio-economic businesses operated like cooperatives, with workers electing managers and making business decisions collectively. This track welcomes papers that shed light on the success and failures of the previous Yugoslavia SOEs and papers and that compare today’s SSEs and cooperatives with the former Yugo SOEs.