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Tag: #Poverty & Inequality

Basic income between dream and reality

The ‘basic income’ is in the spotlight: as an answer to technology that destroys jobs, as a method for creating more opportunities and less poverty, or as an alternative to the welfare state. This book offers a down-to-earth and critical analysis of what has become a real fashion phenomenon in the meantime. It contests both the desirability and the feasibility of a basic income. The …
Poverty & Inequality
 20/02/2018

Itinera’s ten wishes for 2016

In its New Year Letter, Itinera presents its ten wishes for 2016. With contributions of Leo Neels, Ivan Van de Cloot, Marc De Vos, Bilal Benyaich, Johan Albrecht, Jean Hindriks, Alexandre Simons en Simon Ghiotto
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Work
 28/12/2014

Budget discipline or debt creation is also a moral choice

Marc De Vos argues that budget discipline can be a moral imperative when debt addiction has tied future generations to present spending. Excessive public debt is an organized regressive distribution of future prosperity to today’s rich.
Opinion
Economy & Innovation
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Poverty & Inequality
 30/04/2013

Unequal when facing inflation: A flashback on results

We demonstrate that inflation is higher for low income households, retired households and young households of less than 25 years old. This result suggests that our indexation system, proportional to the health index, provides more protection to the rich than to the more vulnerable households. Read the complete report
Opinion
Poverty & Inequality
 02/04/2013

The most unequal treatment is the equal treatment of unequals

Wouter Duyck and Frederik Anseel of the University of Ghent show clearly that late tracking has a negative impact on cognitive performances of students.
Analysis
Poverty & Inequality
 03/09/2012

Towards a better use of scarce resources to combat local poverty

Now the amendments of the municipality decree and OCMW-decree are impending, a lot of politicians and official actors are intervening in this interesting debate and the apparent peace and calm on local, provincial and Flemish level is being disrupted. The impact of both decrees is of course very big. Myriam Deloddere, secretary of OCMW Wervik is giving her vision on how the fight against local …
Analysis
Poverty & Inequality
 18/06/2012

Itinera Brainstorm: more than 50 experts present more than 100 new ideas for reform!

The Itinera Brainstorm is an open reflection on social reforms by politicians, academics and stakeholders. With these new ideas we hope to keep, also in 2012, the debate alive in Belgium and its regions. More than 50 participants, more than 100 ideas!
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Work
 09/03/2012

How to refinance our universities?

Since higher education has been decentralized in Belgium, public financing of universities in both communities has almost been frozen. Students’ coaching has been continuously scrapped for the last forty years; which certainly does not help the graduation rate. Communities budgets have almost no room to increase means significantly. Therefore, tuition fees need to be increased. In order t…
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Poverty & Inequality
 19/09/2011

The paradox of the investment state: Why did poverty not decline?

Despite the favourable social-economical, demographical and policy parameters, we haven’t booked any progress in the fight against poverty during the last 20 years. The result of the welfare state based on activation policy and an attempt to nullify the so-called “new social risks” was less successful than envisaged. At the same time, the level of protection of the “old social risks” …
Analysis
Poverty & Inequality
 22/10/2009

Poverty and social mobility: what do we have to know to act better?

With a poverty rate of 15.2% in 2007, Belgium should consider its fight against poverty and social inequality more seriously than it does now. According to Johan Albrecht and Isabelle Martin, it needs to evaluate more regularly and more rigorously the effects of its anti-poverty policies in order to have a better idea of their real efficiency. Belgium also needs to pay more attention to improvi…
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Poverty & Inequality
 29/06/2009
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