Pobreza e igualdad
25 March, 2015
Cecilia Vaca Jones In Ecuador income poverty has dropped by 15.1 percentage points from December, 2006 to December, 2014. This means that over one million people have overcome their poverty situations. To what strategies can this achievement be ascribed? Firstly, the adoption of the Sumak Kawsay Good Living as Ecuador’s […]
16 March, 2015
By adoption of the Lisbon strategy in 2000 EU undertook, among other tasks, very ambitious plans for eradication of poverty and social exclusion. Despite relatively favourable economic conditions, existing up to 2008, the goals were not achieved or were only partially fulfilled. Characteristic of this period is the opinion that […]
12 March, 2015
A new publication from the World Bank, Left Behind : Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, Overview (by Vakis, Renos; Rigolini, Jamele; Lucchetti, Leonardo) presents the main elements about chronical poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Many people are born into poverty and never escape their poverty […]
24 February, 2015
Caritas Europa published a new report on the impact of the crisis, revealing high levels of poverty in the seven EU countries worst hit by the economic crisis (Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain). The main conclusions and recommendations presented in the report are: After over 6 years […]
14 January, 2015
Interview to Thomas Dominique and Cecilia Vaca Jones during the Biregional Seminar in Naples (Italy) in November 2014. They dialogue with Reciprocamente about the realities that most currently influence the development of policies for social inclusion, both in Latin America and in Europe, and in particular on the labor market, […]