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ILO | The Decade of Adjustment : A Review of Austerity Trends 2010 – 2020 in 187 Countries

EAPN Europe Staff — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:35:55 +0000

18/11/2015 - This ILO paper: (i) examines the latest IMF government spending projections for 187 countries between 2005 and 2020 ; (ii) reviews 616 IMF country reports in 183 countries to identify the main adjustment measures considered by governments in both high-income and developing countries; (iii) applies the United Nations Global Policy Model to simulate the impact of expenditure consolidation on economic growth and employment; (iv) discusses how austerity threatens welfare and social progress; and (v) calls for urgent action by governments to adopt alternative and equitable policies for socio-economic recovery.

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COPE Project | “Europe 2020 and the Fight against Poverty” by Matteo Jessoula

EAPN Europe Staff — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:28:10 +0000

18/11/2015 - The article “Europe 2020 and the Fight against Poverty: Beyond Competence Clash, Towards “Hybrid” Governance Solutions?” by Matteo Jessoula, published online in Social Policy & Administration, issue 4/2015, summarizes the findings of the WP4 I coordinated within the reserach project COPE-Combating Poverty In Europe.

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Conclusions of the EU FP7 project SOPHIE – Social and economic policies matter for health equity

EAPN Europe Staff — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:03:56 +0000

19/11/2015 - The SOPHIE research project has realeased its conclusions. Funded from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, the project aims to generate new evidence on the impact of structural policies on health inequalities and to develop innovative methodologies for the evaluation of these policies in Europe.

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EASPD | New report: How can the European Semester help to implement the UN CRPD

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:58:58 +0000

12/11/2015 - EASPD releases its latest report recommending the EU to use the European Semester as a tool to support the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The EASPD report proposes recommendations on how the EU and its Member States can further develop disability friendly legislation and practices through the European Semester; especially in areas such as inclusive labour markets, inclusive education settings and living in the community. The report ends with several national messages from EASPD’s member organisationson the Country-Specific Recommendations, Country Reports and National Reform Programmes for their own respective Member States.

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ETUI |Towards a desirable and feasible European unemployment benefit scheme

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:31:13 +0000

03/11/2015 - During the last ETUI Monthly Forum, Ilaria Maselli, Research Fellow at CEPS, and Frank Vandenbroucke, of the Catholic University of Leuven, discussed the added value of a European unemployment benefit scheme. They presented a preliminary assessment of a research project funded by the European Commission which studies the feasibility and desirability of establishing a European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS).

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Bertelsmann Foundation | Study: Children hardest hit by Europe’s economic crisis

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:03:55 +0000

27/10/2015 - Some 26 million children and young people in Europe are threatened by poverty or social exclusion after years of economic crisis, according to a new study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, which gave Greece the worst marks in the entire EU.

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EC – DG IPOL | Study on ‘EU Social and Labour Rights and EU Internal Market Law’

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:32:47 +0000

06/11/2015 - Having developed incrementally, EU social and labour rights only in 2009 became legally binding through the Charter of Fundamental Rights for the European Union (CFREU). The study requested by EMPL Committee develops the concept of a constitutionally conditioned Internal Market as a way to overcome the perception that social and labour rights limit Internal Market law. On this basis, alternative responses to perceived tensions are proposed.

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Eurochild working paper | Conditional cash transfers and their impact on children – ensuring adequate resources throughout the life cycle from a children’s perspective

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:05:09 +0000

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in general aim to exert an immediate effect on poverty by raising income, while at the same time contributing to a longer-term reduction of poverty by improving beneficiaries’ future potential to earn a living, in so doing contributing to a drop in demand for such benefits. Within the range of CCTs implemented to date, behaviour related to education, health and nutrition constitute frequent foci, with education and health the most common combination.

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Eurochild | Speak Up! Voices of European Children in Vulnerable Situations

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:59:57 +0000

28/10/2015 - An Explorative Study of Children’s Rights in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. The aim of the Speak up! study is to increase our knowledge of European children in vulnerable situations or with special needs, and their own views about their rights and what needs to be improved.

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Social Platform guide to the EU Public Procurement Directive – Public Procurement For Social Progress

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:56:18 +0000

Following the work of the Social Platform Task Force on Public Procurement, the SP’s guide on the Public Procurement Directive in English, French, German or Spanish! Croatian, and Italian versions will be available soon.

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