El estudio muestra los aspectos teórico-metodológicos y los resultados preeliminares del Prototipo de la Cuenta Satélite de la Economía Social, Solidaria y Popular en Venezuela realizado por el Banco Central de Venezuela. Este prototipo es una investigación estadística, cuyo objetivo general es conocer el aporte que realiza el sector a la economía nacional.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Economy: the relationship in european Public Policies of Gender Equality

In the context of my doctoral thesis about Corporate Social Responsibility, I am deeply interested in the possible oversight or deficient attention to Social Economy in the public policies which are promoting these ecological and social compromises in the economic field. In this context, I work with one of the social responsibilities, gender equality.

In contrast with the cyclic and concentrated movement of the Argentinean economy in the nineties, it showed a dynamic growth during the period 2003-2007, with rates of growth above 7% per year. However, the national product has begun to face a slow-down period as a result of the international crisis, whose consequences over employment and the production cannot still be estimated.

In spite of the recent expansion of the microfinances, unlike other countries, the Mexican government has not been at least able to create a legal frame that respects and foments the different existing legal figures, much less to design a public policy for the sector of the social economy.

The paper tries to give answer to the following questions: - Why is necessary a public policy of social economy? - What must contain that policy to impel to the sector and to obtain effects and impacts in the needed population more? - Who must formulate that policy?

The Regional Incubator of Popular Cooperatives of the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, performs for approximately 10 years the incubation of self-managed solidary entrepreneurships with people of low income in different regions of São Paulo State, developing articulated activities of teaching, research and extension - the latter understood as part of the production of knowledge through the transformation of knowledge in human conduct.

In view of the scenario of deep transformations in the labour market, intensified by the current financial crisis and its repercussions, the importance of government measures aimed at generating employment and income can be seen and the practices of Solidary Economics (SOEC) are shown to be an interesting alternative to address this issue. These practices are intended to build solidary economic enterprises which allow workers excluded from the labour market to generate income.