Expansion of Solidary Economy in the south of Brazil

Abstract

This work was based in a detailed analysis of supplied informations by SIES/MTE, the major database about Solidary Economy in Brazil. The object of this study was the expansion of the solidary economy in the south region of Brazil. This way the general objective to understand and to analyze the expansion of the solidary economy in the south region of Brazil. Thereby search to demonstrate the considerable expansion of activities under the principles of Economics Solidary, this occured on the crisis of formal employment in the decade of 1990, and your apex of growth after the year 2000, when this began to configure how public policy at national. This expansion it was given of differentiated form in Rio Grande do Sul state in general and in pioneering municipalities in the actions that involved the Solidary Economy. Had been considered as hypotheses for this expansion the actions of support entities and the implantation of public politics of support the solidary economy. The research it showed that existence of entities of support, governmental actions,organization capacity of the involved ones beyond the accumulation of experiences is that propitiates matureness of the joint around the solidary economy and induces the creation of public politics of support.