Attention to health policies in Southern regional organisations reveals a new 'social turn' in the regional political economy of international cooperation. The aims of this paper are twofold. First, it aims to establish the extent to which the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) has adopted and sustained policy interventions committed to addressing social inequities and asymmetries in rela...

Abstract In the last two decades, entrepreneurship policies have gone through a radical transformation in many parts of world. New theoretical and empirical approaches helped to identify better drivers entrepreneurial creation, main actors process, significant contribution socio-economic prosperity. One conclusions these new is that outcomes are heavily shaped by place. There no single ideal po...

Once the work for the Social Summit in Copenhagen and the International Conference on Women in Beijing was over, the question that remained in the heads of those who had spent their time and energy in bringing them was about: how to get the agreements transferred into the real world of governmental policies? A large part of considering the implications and consequences of the Social Summit and ...