This book focuses on debates and reflections of intellectuals from developing countries about the issue of development. The developmentalist model dictated by the North is challenged and must reach its end to let developing countries build their own model.

This summary introduces the career pathway of Olivier Fleckinger, an HEC 2004 alumnus and co-founder of software company, whose aim is to help to raise funds for causes. Even if he doesn’t design himself as a “social entrepreneur”, we can grant him the title of “useful entrepreneur”. This...

At the heart of the shale gas debate, Thomas Porcher delivers a study about the consequences of French shale gas reserves exploitation, from an economical perspective. Stemming from the French legal and economic specificities, he exposes and dismantles the arguments put forward by pro-shale gas...

Complementary currencies, exchange tools parallel to official currencies and covering a large domain of initiatives, have been growing for the last decades. The development of Internet and the virtual currencies in online video games have made mmore popular this phenomenon, which dates back to...

Although supporting social business has largely been recognized as one of the main challenges for development assistance actors, social business experience difficulties in developing themselves, suffering from missing help, infrastructure and useful financial support. In the current context of...