Institute for Alternatives Policies for Southern Cone

PACS is a non-profit Organisation for Development in Solidarity engaged in socio-economic research and education, whose main office is in Rio de Janeiro. PACS’ proposal is to place its staff’s efforts and creativity at the service of social movements, church bodies, grassroots governments,membership production groups (cooperatives, self-managed businesses, associations, informal groups and workers’ schools), public schools and other organisations for development in solidarity in the endeavour to rethink the economy and to head our social and economic system in new directions.