2011 Poverty and Capability Approach

The challenges for a poverty reduction strategy: the responses of the alliances. ACW, MOC and their Italian partner CNCA, organised a very interesting seminar in Rome where we looked for soms answers to the challenges for a poverty reduction. The program was ambitious. We wanted to analyse the actual social state of Europe and the member states, to look critical to the European answers, and to give the answers of…

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2011 Balancing the European policy

Balancing the social and economic policy of Europe Report of the Social Conference September 2011 Brussels The EU2020 strategy set the ambitious target of reducing 20 millions of persons living in poverty, but it is hard to find how the actions taken at national level will make it real. On top of that, the austerity measures adopted in several countries against the crisis created side effects further exacerbating the situation…

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2010 – The start of the Alliances to fight poverty

Alliances to fight poverty The European seminar “alliances to fight poverty” intends to examine a real poverty policy and also to take initiatives to realize it. In order to let appear poverty on the political agenda the political parties and the governments must be aware of the necessity of a policy for struggle against poverty. It’s the job of the civil society to convince them. Applying this strategy the civil…

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