LEONIDG. MELNYK, IRYNA B. DEHTYAROVA, OLENA V. SHKARUPA, OLENA Yu. CHYGRYN
Social and Solidarity Economy in Transition to Sustainable Development: The EU Experience
(original language – Russian)
This article explores the process of providing social and solidarity economy (SSE) in transition to sustainable development. The notion of sustainability as the state of the triad of three interrelated and interdependent systems: socio-economic, biological human nature, ecological is grounded.It reveals the meaning and content of SSE. It reveals the principles that underlie the functioning of solidarity economy structures and experience to ensure SSE in the EU.It explores the experience of the internal networks of the European initiatives on morality, national solidarity and territorial networks in Europe and Intercontinental network promoting SSE. The article grounds the necessity to use the experience of the European Union to ensure sustainable development in terms of development SSE projects, which in turn would contribute to solving urgent social, economic and environmental problems
Key words: solidarity economy, social economy, sustainable development, efficiency, integration.
Placed in №4, 2014.
Affiliations:
LEONIDG. MELNYK, Dr. (Economics), Professor, Head of Department of Economics and Business-Administration, Sumy State University, Director of Research Institute for Development Economics (IDE),
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National Academy of Science of Ukraine;
IRYNA B. DEHTYAROVA, C.Sc. (Economics), Associate Professor,
Department of Economics and Business-Administration, Sumy State University;
OLENA V. SHKARUPA, C.Sc. (Economics), Associate Professor,
Department of Economics and Bus
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