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Last updated: 17/06/2025
Maria Ruiz Rivera
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Belgium
  PhD in Development Studies and Social & Solidarity Economy
  Parra, J. D., Ruiz-Rivera, M. J., Tingo, F. A., & Cevallos, M. A. (2025). Los retos de la descentralización en la gobernanza escolar: Algunos aprendizajes de la experiencia del Modelo Integral Unidades Educativas del Milenio de Ecuador. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 33. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.33.8300

Caitana, B., Callorda, E., Lemaitre, A., Ruiz-Rivera, M. J., & Umantseva, A. (2024). Repensando las “Soluciones basadas en la Naturaleza” desde el pensamiento post-desarrollista latinoamericano. Revista de La Academia, 38, 252–281. https://doi.org/10.25074/0196318.38.2811

Olmedo, L., Ruiz-Rivera, M. J., Corcoran, L., & Whelan, B. (2024). A bottom-up methodology for a national baseline data collection of the social enterprise sector: The experience of Ireland. CIRIEC-España, Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa, 112, 257–286. https://doi.org/10.7203/CIRIEC-E.112.27082

Lemaître, A. & Ruiz-Rivera, M.J. (2020). Institucionalización de las iniciativas de economía social y solidaria. Análisis y desafíos en el Ecuador a través de un enfoque institucional y sustantivo de la economía, in Carranza-Barona, C. & Martínez-Galarza, A. (eds), Desafíos de la Economía Solidaria y Comunitaria. Acercamientos conceptuales desde las experiencias, Quito, Ecuador: EcuadorSapiens, pp. 204–60. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/237287

Ruiz Rivera, M. J. & Lemaître, A. (2019). Popular and Solidarity Economy in Ecuador. Historical Overview, Institutional Trajectories and Types of Organisation. In L. I. Gaiger, M. Nyssens & F. Wanderley (Eds.), Social Enterprise in Latin America. Theory, Models and Practice, Routledge: New York, pp. 139-168. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/215969
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  Researcher in development studies at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Work, State, and Society at UCLouvain. I previously worked in research projects of the governmental sector in Ecuador. My current research focuses on popular economy, social economy and solidarity-based economy in Latin America, especially on organizations’ discourses and practices, institutionalization, public policy, and political embeddedness.