A economia solidária como uma estratégia de desenvolvimento territorial: alguns aspectos teóricos

Abstract

This work aims to theoretically highlight how the Solidarity Economics having as a mediation term the Social Capital can constitute in a powerful strategy of territorial development. The Solidarity Economy is based on a set of economic and social activities which recovers the solidarity sense, gift, and cooperation, trying to reinsert the economics in the set of other social practices. Public policies oriented towards the Solidararity Economics can constitute important instruments of territorial development if they are able to stimulate the generation of a set of rules and values, with tends to create confidence links resulting and facilitating the achievement of common goals, creating identities and even respecting the structure power that defines the territories and their limits, recognize the alterity, so they are allowed to establish new horizontal relations that are able to produce changes on peoples capacity to promote their full development and improve their life conditions.