Guaranteed Minimum Income

What are we talking about when we talk about “hatred of the poor”? Hatred of the poor (Ponte alle Grazie): the story told through slides, stories, and definitions that I used in meetings, seminars, and book presentations.

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Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di "odio dei poveri". L'odio dei poveri (Ponte alle Grazie): il racconto per slide, storie e definizioni che ho usato negli incontri, nei seminari, nelle presentazioni del libro

Agricultural marketing plays a pivotal role in shaping the production and productivity of the agriculture sector. An optimally functioning agricultural marketing system employs innovative marketing strategies that result in heightened agricultural productivity and output. The current study aims to assess the performance of the current agricultural marketing system and the role of intermediaries in selected districts of Odisha. Additionally, the present study also investigated the determinant of the method of agricultural product disposal, as well as the challenges and potential opportunities agricultural farmers face. The research revealed that the farmers were exploited by intermediaries and private traders, resulting in their inability to receive a fair and profitable price for their agricultural output. Farmers in Odisha faced the challenge of inadequate marketing facilities, resulting in the sale of their produce to village traders at a low price. There has been a lot of discussion in the government about the massive increase in the prices of agricultural product but the farmers share in consumer's rupee is very less. It is a fact that higher consumer prices do not guarantee that farmers will also get higher prices. Farmers buy a lot of food. So, it's not just the consumers suffering but also the farmers. Who is responsible for these farmers?

India’s recent farm laws sought to liberalize agricultural markets and attract private investment into infrastructure such as cold chains, warehouses, and aggregation centres. However, concerns about increased exposure to market volatility triggered widespread farmer protests demanding a legally guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP). This paper critically analyzes the farm laws using secondary data drawn from government reports and scholarly literatures. It highlights how the MSP policy, while successful in ensuring price assurance for paddy and wheat, has largely excluded pulses and oilseeds, contributing to nutritional imbalances and undernourishment among women and children. Farmers cultivating these neglected crops face market uncertainties, resulting in low profitability, poor production incentives, and a growing reliance on imports. The paper proposes a reformed MSP framework based on a price insurance model. It recommends: (i) continued procurement of paddy and wheat to support food security objectives; (ii) implementation of a Price Deficiency Payment Scheme (PDPS) for the remaining 21 MSP-notified crops; and (iii) using MSP as a signal price to guide production in fragmented markets. The findings underscore the need for a balanced approach that aligns market reforms with inclusive and stable income support mechanisms for farmers.

Le politiche abitative del nostro Paese, da decenni, vedono un disimpegno complessivo dell’intervento pubblico, sia in termini di investimenti sul patrimonio residenziale, sia in termini di strumenti fiscali e mirati sostegni al reddito; allo stesso tempo, gli indicatori sull’abitare, in termini di accessibilità ad alloggi di buona qualità sono in costante peggioramento. Con questo contributo si propone un’analisi del disagio abitativo sulla base dei dati dell’Indagine Istat sulle condizioni di vita delle famiglie (IT-SILC), confrontando i dati 2018 e 2021 sulla componente longitudinale del campione di famiglie intervistate. L’analisi si focalizza sulla ‘popolazione a rischio di povertà’ e sui ‘percettori del Reddito di cittadinanza’ (RdC) per delineare profilo e dimensioni del disagio abitativo in queste fasce di popolazione. Lo studio conferma la relazione nota tra povertà e disagio abitativo e pone l’attenzione su come, per una quota di popolazione vulnerabile, il RdC diventi uno strumento per l’housing affordability, inteso come accessibilità a un’abitazione dignitosa. Nelle popolazioni osservate, il disagio abitativo riguarda il 30% degli individui, valore triplo rispetto alla popolazione generale. Inoltre, i percettori di RdC vivono più di frequente in abitazioni deprivate (+10%). Emerge, però, che l’incremento di reddito prodotto dalla misura ha avuto un effetto positivo sulla quota di famiglie ‘in sovraccarico’ e ‘a rischio di povertà’, infatti tale quota si è ridotta del 13% nel 2021 rispetto a tre anni prima, dimostrando le potenzialità del RdC rispetto alla dimensione dell’affordabilty.

This study examines the Italian social assistance system in the
context of antipoverty measures, primarily structured through the
minimum income guaranteed by the legislator. Adopting a multi-level
perspective, the analysis highlights several critical issues within the
legislation enacted over the past decade: administrative barriers to benefit
allocation, the lack of coordination between the State and regional
authorities in developing antipoverty strategies, and discriminatory
practices against immigrants. The author concludes that these factors
collectively hinder efforts to address the “poverty trap”.

Il saggio tratta, dal punto di vista del diritto costituzionale, dei temi concernenti il contrasto alla povertà con il fine di evidenziare, in modo particolare, il rapporto tra contrasto alla povertà e lavoro. Dopo essersi soffermato su alcuni profili definitori, il saggio si concentra sulla questione dell’individuazione delle basi costituzionali del diritto ad una vita dignitosa, in quanto libera dalla povertà. L’attenzione viene specificamente concentrata sul ruolo che, ai fini dell’individuazione delle succitate basi costituzionali, svolgono le previsioni concernenti il diritto al lavoro e il dovere di concorrere al progresso materiale o spirituale della società. L’ultima parte del saggio è dedicata ad un’analisi critica dei più recenti sviluppi normativi e giurisprudenziali relativi alle misure di contrasto alla povertà.

Si configura il reato di cui all’art. 7, comma 2, L. 28 marzo 2019 n. 26 nel caso
di omessa comunicazione di una variazione patrimoniale rilevante, sussistente anche nel caso di conseguimento di somme di denaro per donazione (nella specie, la Cassazione ha confermato la sentenza di condanna per il reato di cui all’art. 7, co. 2, l. 28 marzo 2019 n. 26 emessa a carico di un soggetto che, dopo aver percepito il reddito di cittadinanza, non aveva informato l’Inps dello svolgimento di attività lavorativa, seppure irregolare e compensata solo con delle regalie saltuarie).

Job Guarantee policies make public sector jobs available for those who are able and willing to work. Job guarantee schemes must work in a democratic and inclusive manner to tackle both unemployment and precarious employment, with the goal of eliminating poverty-wages and poor labor standards. In India, a social welfare measure for job guarantee, MNREGA – Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, was enacted in 2005 with the aim to guarantee the constitutional ‘right to work’. MNREGA scheme guarantees employment for 100 days to one individual in every rural household. In the context of climate-related events and disasters, this paper highlights the social, economic and ecological costs of climate change in India, and explores pathways to extend MNREGA projects to address the dual challenge of climate change and unemployment, by creating public sector jobs targeted to build climate change resilience in India. MNREGA adopts a decentralized approach to plan and implement job guarantee programs in India’s villages. This approach can be further strengthened by increasing the participation of local people in budgeting, planning and implementation for identifying the right job guarantee projects, with climate-friendly outcomes to generate local employment.

We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in five European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Norway, Portugal and United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue, the effects of various hypothetical tax-transfer reforms which include alternative versions of a Basic Income mechanisms. We produce various indexes and criteria according to which the reforms can be ranked. The exercise can be considered as one of empirical optimal taxation, where the optimization problem is solved computationally rather than analytically.

Negli ultimi anni si è intensificato il dibattito su reddito minimo e salario minimo. Questo è avvenuto principalmente per l’esplodere di una grande questione sociale, legata alle crisi economico finanziarie che si sono susseguite negli ultimi quindici anni e al nuovo scenario di “economia di guerra”, e per l’attività normativa dell’Unione europea, volta a introdurre nuovi strumenti di contrasto al lavoro povero e all’esclusione sociale. In Italia, in particolare, il confronto su questi nuovi strumenti ha incrociato una grande questione salariale che attanaglia il paese. Con l’esperienza del reddito di cittadinanza e le ipotesi di salario minimo legale avanzate, si arricchisce il dibattito nazionale sulla ricerca di un’alternativa complessiva alla stagflazione, nel solco di valori e principi costituzionali.

Alla luce del monitoraggio nazionale Caritas sul REI e sul tipo di azioni messe in campo dalla Caritas stessa per orientare ed ampliare la platea dei beneficiari, vengono delineate le linee di intervento della Caritas in materia di contrasto alla povertà, anche in vista dell'attuazione del Reddito di cittadinanza recentemente introdotto nel nostro Paese.

A pandemia da Covid-19, iniciada nos mercados da província de Wuhan, na China, denuncia diariamente uma crise política, econômica e social sem precedentes no Brasil e no mundo. Nesse contexto, este estudo objetiva apresentar uma análise do discurso político e ideológico — através dos jornais brasileiros — que circunda o enfrentamento da pandemia, partindo do pressuposto de defesa dos direitos sociais fundamentais por meio de um posicionamento jurídico e doutrinário centrado na importância das políticas públicas. Seguindo esses ditames, surgem muitas indagações, com destaque para o problema que diz respeito ao fato de as políticas públicas serem (ou não) mecanismos eficazes de proteção e garantia dos direitos sociais fundamentais, no sentido de estabelecer um equilíbrio entre a retomada da economia e a preservação da saúde e da vida. Assim, o estudo proposto constitui-se em uma revisão bibliográfica que utilizou doutrinas e jornais brasileiros impressos, baseando-se no método dialéti...

Using a randomized field experiment in the Swedish pension system, we investigate whether receiving an information letter affects the take-up rate of the housing allowance for pensioners. We also investigate whether the framing of the information letter affects take-up. The results show that simple information letters had a significant effect on the application rate and subsequent take-up rate: The baseline application rate in the targeted control population was only 1.4%, while the corresponding rates in the different treatment groups were between 9.9 and 12.1%. However, while the applications in the control group were accepted in almost 3 out of 4 cases, up to 50% of the applications in the treatment group were declined. The lower conditional acceptance rate in the treatment group seems to be largely driven by wealth, which the Pensions Agency cannot observe prior to submission. Information campaigns aimed at increasing benefit take-up therefore need careful design in situations with imperfect targeting.

Using a randomized field experiment in the Swedish pension system, we investigate whether receiving an information letter affects the take-up rate of the housing allowance for pensioners. We also investigate whether the framing of the information letter affects take-up. The results show that simple information letters had a significant effect on the application rate and subsequent take-up rate: The baseline application rate in the targeted control population was only 1.4%, while the corresponding rates in the different treatment groups were between 9.9 and 12.1%. However, while the applications in the control group were accepted in almost 3 out of 4 cases, up to 50% of the applications in the treatment group were declined. The lower conditional acceptance rate in the treatment group seems to be largely driven by wealth, which the Pensions Agency cannot observe prior to submission. Information campaigns aimed at increasing benefit take-up therefore need careful design in situations with imperfect targeting.

Questa pubblicazione ha avuto il suo impulso iniziale dalla necessità delle 31 reti nazionali appartenenti alla Rete Europea di Lotta contro la Povertà (EAPN) di scambiarsi informazioni in maniera rapida ed efficiente. Da qui la decisione di preparare, ogni anno, un breve compendio della povertà nei rispettivi paesi, comparando le statistiche nazionali con quelle europee. La pubblicazione che avete tra le mani è il risultato del lavoro fatto in Italia dal Collegamento Italiano di Lotta contro la Povertà, il CILAP EAPN Italia: una riflessione collettiva di coloro che ogni giorno lavorano sui territori contro la povertà, correlata dalle più recenti statistiche e dalle testimonianze di chi la povertà la vive tutti i giorni sulla propria pelle. Non è un lavoro né esaustivo né sociologico. È, almeno nelle nostre intenzioni, un quaderno di facile lettura, dove trovare informazioni utili per il nostro lavoro quotidiano, rivolto agli operatori di comunità, ai volontari e a tutti coloro che sono impegnati nella lotta contro la povertà.

Tonya Surman has been creating and leading social ventures since 1987. She is the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Social Innovation. Her experience includes developing the Constellation Model, a multi-stakeholder partnership framework that was used to ban toxic chemicals in baby bottles and organise 40,000+ Ontario nonprofits into a network with policymaking clout; launching Catapult, a micro-loan fund that galvanizes government, corporate and nonprofit partners to support deserving social mission startups, among many other initiatives. Authors The Mowat Centre is an independent public policy think tank located at the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto. The Mowat Centre is Ontario's non-partisan, evidence-based voice on public policy. It undertakes collaborative applied policy research, proposes innovative research-driven recommendations, and engages in public dialogue on Canada's most important national issues. The Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) is a nonprofit social enterprise, a global pioneer in coworking, and a community and catalyst for people and organizations that are changing the world, with four Toronto locations and one in New York City. CSI members are turning social, environmental, economic and cultural challenges into opportunities to make the world a better place. CSI has published several books, including one on its innovation in social finance The Community Bond, which it used to purchase two buildings in downtown Toronto to support social innovation. Learn more at socialinnovation.org.

(SSMI) s'est tenue du 21 au 23 septembre à Montreux. Comme en 2015, des experts de différentes disciplines et de nombreux intéressés ont participé à un séminaire d'une journée organisé pour les responsables de la gestion des services de soins intensifs. Les thèmes abordés n'étaient pas exclusivement centrés autour de la pratique de la médecine intensive, mais abordaient plus largement le fonctionnement du système de santé suisse dans son ensemble: le «ICU Management Seminar 2016» de la SSMI était résolument placé sous le signe de l'amélioration de la qualité. Quand des erreurs surviennent Une gestion efficace de la qualité commence par reconnaître le fait que même dans un système appliquant des standards très élevés, des erreurs peuvent survenir: «Même dans un système hautement complexe et tech

En este texto se analiza la exclusión social desde los niveles institucional y político e individual-grupal y se profundiza en su origen estructural, su carácter multidimensional y su naturaleza procesual. En particular, se analiza la exclusión como fenómeno estructural ...

During the Coronavirus epidemic in Slovenia (March 2020 to June 2021) and during the period of global public health emergency due to COVID-19 (January 2020 to May 2023), public discourse about physicians in the Slovenian media and on social media fluctuated between extremes ranging from idolisation, hero worship and contempt to verbal and physical threats. These diametrically different images of doctors coincided with the measures taken in the country to contain the epidemic and the consequences for the lives of people who suddenly lost their livelihoods and sense of freedom. The discourse observed in comments under media reports and on social media about physicians between January 2020 and May 2023 shows that the entire burden of staff shortages and otherwise poorly organised healthcare fell on medical personnel, who had to deal with long queues, exhaustion and escalated verbal and physical aggression. The depriving of the right to treatment for anyone within a reasonable period of time, which loomed over the entire healthcare system due to the Coronavirus, together with the circulation of different conspiracy theories, caused intense anger, vulgar insults and comparisons of all kinds, physical harassment and death threats against individual physicians, as well as an unjustifiably growing distrust of medicine in general. This article analyses the hostile and abusive online communications that, in real life, were unleashed in occasional physical attacks and other forms of violence against medical personnel in Slovenia. It highlights the complicated interplay between medicine and the social and cultural context during the COVID-19 pandemic and illustrates the complexity of medicine beyond biological understanding.

It is a truism to point out that the COVID-19 pandemic (and the United Kingdom government's response to it) has brought major disruption to everyday life. It has also, however, exposed and intensified existing fault-lines in society. The relationship between paid and unpaid labor, and the need to better recognize and reimburse the latter, long a key concern of feminist theorists and activists especially in relation to work within the household, has been one key issue of focus in our research. As parents with children have had to add childcare and home schooling to their work portfolios, there are reports of women in both middle-class and poorer households doing the lion's share. Meanwhile, as low-paid workers in the National Health Service (NHS), 'care' sector, and essential/key workers-often hailing from communities of recent or not-so-recent immigrantshave had to continue to work, other, higher-paid workers (not deemed to be 'key') have been able to stay safe by working at home; pre-existing inequalities between classes have been laid bare in ever-starker fashion. Pre-Covid, even after a decade of austerity, certain aspects of care for families in the low-paid category were undertaken by a 'mixed economy' of welfare.23 This combined state welfare facilities, often provided at local level, with services rendered by charities staffed both by volunteers and salaried officers, while welfare payments known as 'universal credit' were delivered centrally by the Department of Welfare and Pensions. Now, in the time of coronavirus, these services have been thinned out, while lockdown has truncated informal sources of support in social relationships, making them difficult to draw on in times of need. This has caused anger and distress, and in some cases trauma. Whether people feel that the lockdown has been necessary or not, many of those in the low-paid sectors feel as though their situation-and suffering-is in visible to the government. Multiple forms of disadvantage emerge from this threat to the ties that bind people to each other.

4 4.8 Vacancies and structural imbalances 5. LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION 5.1 Demographic trends 5.2 Labour force participation by gender 5.3 Working hours 6. UNEMPLOYMENT 6.1 General trends in unemployment 6.2 Unemployment by sector and occupation 6.3 Unemployment by age and gender 6.4 Unemployment by educational attainment 6.5 Unemployment by region 7. EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEMS 7.1 The structure of the education and training system 7.1.1 Pre-primary, primary and secondary education 7.1.2 Higher education 7.1.3 The training system 7.2 Initial vocational education and training 7.2.1 Technical schools 7.2.2 The HRDA's initial training programmes 7.2.3 Links with the labour market 7.2.4 The Cyprus Productivity Centre 7.3 Continuing vocational training 7.3.1 The HRDA's continuing training programmes 7.3.2 Issues in continuing vocational training 7.4 Other training schemes 7.4.1 Management/business education and training 7.4.2 Training for the unemployed 7.4.3 Vocational guidance 7.4.4 Care and rehabilitation of the disabled 8. LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS 8.1 Public employment services 5 8.2 Private employment services 8.3 Trade unions 8.4 Employers' organisations 8.5 Employment and labour market regulation 8.6 Tripartite cooperation and collective bargaining 9. EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET POLICIES 9.1 Labour market policies 9.2 Passive labour market measures 9.2.1 Unemployment insurance 9.2.2 Social assistance 9.3 Active labour market measures 9.4 Industrial policies 9.5 Policies specific to services 9.6 Other employment issues 10. CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY Planning Bureau. In a number of cases clarifications were obtained from members of these organisations. In addition, a number of meetings were held with officials from the Department of Labour and from the Planning Bureau. During these meetings, the planning and execution of this report were discussed and valuable exchange of views on points of both substance and detail occurred. 1.3 General comments on the literature and data sources While official data on the economy of the Republic of Cyprus and its labour market in particular are generally good, very few studies have been published and are available in the public domain. Some of these, e.g. Jennies (1962), Meyer (1962), and House (1984) are very dated and of little contemporary relevance. Studies by Christofides and Pashardes (1999, 2000) make highly specialised, statistical, use of the Family Expenditure Survey of 1990/91 and were used to inform our discussion. Other useful material is available in a number of government documents and publications-see the Bibliography.

How can reference budgets contribute to the construction of social indicators to assess the adequacy of minimum income and the affordability of necessary goods and services Project name The Future of European Social Citizenship Project acronym EuSocialCit Grant Agreement ID 870978 Deliverable number D5.3 Lead partner Thomas More Kempen Work package EuSocialCit is an interdisciplinary research project aiming to support the EU in strengthening social rights and European social citizenship. It evaluates the current state of social rights in Europe and their relationship to social inequalities, gender inequalities, poverty and precariousness, and diagnoses the shortcomings of current policies and institutions at the level of individual countries and the EU. The EuSocialCit project focusses on three domains in which social rights are important: the empowerment of citizens (e.g. education and activation), fair working conditions and social inclusion. Each of these domains are respectively studied as part of WP3, WP4 and WP5. This report is produced as part of WP5 which is entitled Inclusion through social policy. This WP focusses on minimum incomes sensu lato, social protection and housing. It identifies, among others, more effective policy packages for the future, based on an innovative set of policy indicators.

Social distancing rules in Brazil in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulted in the paralysis of most economic activities. Measures were taken to provide support for maintenance of income and employment and to guarantee a minimum income for informal workers. Health and safety protections for healthcare and essential services workers received very minimal attention.

Social distancing rules in Brazil in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulted in the paralysis of most economic activities. Measures were taken to provide support for maintenance of income and employment and to guarantee a minimum income for informal workers. Health and safety protections for healthcare and essential services workers received very minimal attention.

An analysis is carried out of the new forms of social protection that are established for the protection of people in need due to lack of income and that have been established, based on the competence in matters of social assistance, by the Communities Autonomous. Likewise, the nature of universal basic income and the possibility of state management of the same are examined based on the distribution of powers established by the Spanish Constitution.

How can reference budgets contribute to the construction of social indicators to assess the adequacy of minimum income and the affordability of necessary goods and services Project name The Future of European Social Citizenship Project acronym EuSocialCit Grant Agreement ID 870978 Deliverable number D5.3 Lead partner Thomas More Kempen Work package EuSocialCit is an interdisciplinary research project aiming to support the EU in strengthening social rights and European social citizenship. It evaluates the current state of social rights in Europe and their relationship to social inequalities, gender inequalities, poverty and precariousness, and diagnoses the shortcomings of current policies and institutions at the level of individual countries and the EU. The EuSocialCit project focusses on three domains in which social rights are important: the empowerment of citizens (e.g. education and activation), fair working conditions and social inclusion. Each of these domains are respectively studied as part of WP3, WP4 and WP5. This report is produced as part of WP5 which is entitled Inclusion through social policy. This WP focusses on minimum incomes sensu lato, social protection and housing. It identifies, among others, more effective policy packages for the future, based on an innovative set of policy indicators.

How can reference budgets contribute to the construction of social indicators to assess the adequacy of minimum income and the affordability of necessary goods and services Project name The Future of European Social Citizenship Project acronym EuSocialCit Grant Agreement ID 870978 Deliverable number D5.3 Lead partner Thomas More Kempen Work package EuSocialCit is an interdisciplinary research project aiming to support the EU in strengthening social rights and European social citizenship. It evaluates the current state of social rights in Europe and their relationship to social inequalities, gender inequalities, poverty and precariousness, and diagnoses the shortcomings of current policies and institutions at the level of individual countries and the EU. The EuSocialCit project focusses on three domains in which social rights are important: the empowerment of citizens (e.g. education and activation), fair working conditions and social inclusion. Each of these domains are respectively studied as part of WP3, WP4 and WP5. This report is produced as part of WP5 which is entitled Inclusion through social policy. This WP focusses on minimum incomes sensu lato, social protection and housing. It identifies, among others, more effective policy packages for the future, based on an innovative set of policy indicators.

Policymakers worldwide are realising that traditional welfare systems need modernisation. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with economic, ecological, and social crises intensifying, these systems are being exposed as inefficient, ineffective, and unjust. Policymakers have therefore begun exploring Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a potential alternative. This is leading to rising interest in basic income trials, with pilots proposed or in the pipeline in many countries, including Scotland and Wales. However, pilots are often designed without meaningful community participation, which raises significant ethical and practical concerns. Through a series of qualitative workshops in Jarrow, one of the more deprived areas in the UK and an archetypal target for 'Levelling Up' policy, we explored and categorized local concerns, hopes, and suggestions for piloting basic income in the area. This article presents those findings and thereby builds the knowledge base around community perspectives on local basic income pilots.

This report was written by Graciela Malgesini Rey, Senior Policy Officer of the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) in Spain. This document has been prepared for the European Commission; however, it reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

The COVID-19 quarantine in Mexico has meant that household members spend more time inside the home, increasing the demand for direct and indirect care by minors, the elderly, chronically ill and disabled. This forced a reconfiguration of the provision of these services by household members. The aim of the document is twofold: first, to describe socioeconomic and demographic aspects of Mexican households around care activities during the quarantine and second, to estimate the determinants of the provision of care in the quarantine. The information was obtained from the Survey of Care and COVID-19 in Mexican Homes during Quarantine (SCCMHQ). The propensity score-matching technique is used as a quasi-experimental procedure to estimate the causal effects of a treatment variable (presence of minors, elderly, chronically ill, disability, or domestic service in the home) in Mexican households. The Probit model shows that age and economic dependency are determinants of caregiving for treatment groups with minors, disability and chronic disease. In addition, sex, home income, and current employment situation are significant for treatment groups with a disability, paid domestic work, and minors, respectively. A positive "net" effect of the treatment variables in the probability of care provision was also observed. Particularly, the existence of minors at home was highly effective to promote direct and indirect care. The confinement solution is characterized by a balance between genders, except in the case of households with disabilities. This shows that a cultural and functional change is possible in the distribution of care responsibilities, which can be consolidated through public policies.

La compleja adaptación de las normas autonómicas sobre rentas mínimas a la normativa estatal: su carácter complementario y subsidiario respecto del ingreso mínimo vital. 3.2 El reparto de competencias entre el Estado y las Comunidades Autónomas en materia de garantía de ingresos mínimos: algunas consideraciones jurisprudenciales. 3.2.1. La naturaleza asistencial de determinadas ayudas autonómicas complementarias a pensiones estatales no contributivas: la STC 239/2002, de 11 de diciembre. 3.2.2. La competencia exclusiva del Estado sobre la legislación básica y el régimen económico de la Seguridad Social comprende la potestad ejecutiva plena sobre la gestión del ingreso mínimo vital: la STC 158/2021, de 16 de septiembre.

Aim: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic revealed significant negative effects on children and people with disabilities who are classified as socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in addition to individuals in Turkey as in the whole world. Especially, children constitute the most disadvantaged group in families with low socioeconomic status. The situation of these children was analyzed in the study. Also, the performance of health policies for children in COVID-19 pandemic period has been evaluated. Material and Methods: This study was used in the statistics published in Turkey and in various countries. Results: Outbreaks are likely to cause significant physical and psychological problems, especially in children. In particular, the medium and long-term effects of being locked up at home on children when their parents have to work are not known in addition to the social distancing that they experience due to the inability of children to come together with their peers. I...

The aim of this paper is to measure the causal effect of the NGO TECHO’s emergency housing program on the wellbeing of households that live in situations of extreme poverty in Greater Buenos Aires. It builds on the work of two existing evaluations of the program, by measuring impact on a broader range of wellbeing dimensions and quantifying the effect on both objective and subjective measures. We find that the program has a large effect on privacy, security, interpersonal relations, psychological wellbeing and perception of quality of life and a more limited effect on health and sleep quality.

How can reference budgets contribute to the construction of social indicators to assess the adequacy of minimum income and the affordability of necessary goods and services Project name The Future of European Social Citizenship Project acronym EuSocialCit Grant Agreement ID 870978 Deliverable number D5.3 Lead partner Thomas More Kempen Work package EuSocialCit is an interdisciplinary research project aiming to support the EU in strengthening social rights and European social citizenship. It evaluates the current state of social rights in Europe and their relationship to social inequalities, gender inequalities, poverty and precariousness, and diagnoses the shortcomings of current policies and institutions at the level of individual countries and the EU. The EuSocialCit project focusses on three domains in which social rights are important: the empowerment of citizens (e.g. education and activation), fair working conditions and social inclusion. Each of these domains are respectively studied as part of WP3, WP4 and WP5. This report is produced as part of WP5 which is entitled Inclusion through social policy. This WP focusses on minimum incomes sensu lato, social protection and housing. It identifies, among others, more effective policy packages for the future, based on an innovative set of policy indicators.

The report is about Polish minimum income defined as one of the cash benefits from social assistance (periodic benefit, zasiłek okresowy) and part of the broader social support and activation system. The report was prepared as part of the project aiming at support of European Commission in drafting recommendation on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (adopted in 2023).
The following sections, first, outline the features of the MI support in place; secondly, describe the eligibility criteria and coverage and consider the adequacy of the financial support provided and the links with other benefits; thirdly, examine the extent of integration with labour market measures to help those supported into employment; fourthly, consider the access provided for the people concerned to social services; fifthly, summarise the governance mechanisms in place; and, finally, review
the evidence on the impact on reducing poverty and assisting beneficiaries to find work. An annex outlines the underlying situation in terms of the relative number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and the changes that have occurred over recent years, as well as the characteristics of the people concerned – their gender, age, employment status, education level, country of birth and the structure of the households in which they live. As such, it provides the context in which MI support is operating and indicates the groups on which support needs to be targeted.

This work focuses on the implications of introducing a variation of a Basic Income for individuals in grim socio-economic conditions in Barcelona (Spain). We explore the happiness and socio-psychological imprint of living in material deprivation in a metropolitan city. Surveying people who joined the two-year Municipal Inclusion Support (MIS) scheme launched by the Municipality of Barcelona, we first identify the major constructs that contribute to recipients’ subjective well-being, paying particular attention to the sense of socio-economic vulnerability. Secondly, we explore the way beneficiaries’ subjective well-being changed over the project duration. Overall, the introduction of the MIS has had a positive effect on the subjective well-being of its recipients over the program duration. We also find that the profound and lasting effect of material and food deprivation, and the continuous stress these entail, explain changes in subjective well-being better than the actual income le...

Between 2017 and 2019, Barcelona was one of the first European cities to implement a basic income experiment, the B-MINCOME pilot, aimed at reducing poverty and social exclusion in a low-income area of the city. A new cash grant was designed along with a package of active policies. Four modalities of participation were then established depending on two criteria: whether attending these policies was mandatory or not, and whether participants’ additional income altered the amount of the grant or was instead net added on top. The context which initially moulded the pilot is firstly explained. Then, the cash schema and the active policies are described followed by an explanation of its experimental design. The main results at individual, community and institutional levels formerly released in the official reports are now integrated and jointly addressed. Finally, conclusions discuss some issues raised by the pilot’s results in light of the findings gathered in other similar basic income...

La idea de asignar a todos y cada uno de los miembros de la sociedad una prestación monetaria de carácter individual, incondicional y universal –una renta básica– cada día suscita mayor interés. Sin embargo, no disponemos de la evidencia con la que contrastar sus posibles efectos puesto que dicha política nunca se ha implementado. Es por ello que muchos países están
realizando experimentos con el fin de estimar cuál podría ser su impacto a nivel individual, social e institucional. Este capítulo reivindica la necesidad de diseñar políticas basadas en la evidencia y resume algunas de las técnicas experimentales empleadas en estos experimentos de renta básica, para centrarse en el B-MINCOME, un proyecto piloto de renta básica realizado en Barcelona entre 2017 y 2019. La evidencia acumulada hasta ahora por este y otros experimentos ha proporcionado información muy valiosa no solo para avanzar hacia la adecuada implementación de esta política, sino también para mejorar los sistemas de protección social y las políticas de garantía de renta actualmente existentes.

This work focuses on the implications of introducing a variation of a Basic Income for individuals in grim socio-economic conditions in Barcelona (Spain). We explore the happiness and socio-psychological imprint of living in material deprivation in a metropolitan city. Surveying people who joined the two-year Municipal Inclusion Support (MIS) scheme launched by the Municipality of Barcelona, we first identify the major constructs that contribute to recipients’ subjective well-being, paying particular attention to the sense of socio-economic vulnerability. Secondly, we explore the way beneficiaries’ subjective well-being changed over the project duration. Overall, the introduction of the MIS has had a positive effect on the subjective well-being of its recipients over the program duration. We also find that the profound and lasting effect of material and food deprivation, and the continuous stress these entail, explain changes in subjective well-being better than the actual income le...

Background. The rising number of the EU Roma citizens from the CEE countries, non-EU Roma citizens from the Western-Balkans, and of undocumented migrants in the European Union makes it interesting to see that most of them face barriers when accessing health services [with a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)] or have no health coverage at all [no legal entitlement]. European migrant health policies are seemingly well structured and responsive to the needs of migrants, however, results of recent studies raise the question whether the legislations are responsive enough to the needs of the Roma and undocumented migrants when accessing health services. Given the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic these groups are now at an increased risk and they might not be able to understand how the virus transmits and how they can protect themselves from it.  Methods. Literature review focusing on the access to health services and migrant health policies in the EU and the UK was carried out. ...

Identifying who to help, through which public services and when, has seldom been a straightforward task in most democratically elected, free-market societies. Competing social, economic and political pressures are often too great, resulting in outcomes that can amplify inequalities and reduce life chances. The concept of universal basic income (UBI) is a long-standing one and has been met by a range of views on its economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity. Given the sizeable negative shock of COVID-19, might current circumstances allow for UBI to become more mainstream? If not now, when? In this report, we outline the risks and other key variables that policymakers will need to consider. Importantly, we reflect on the potential impacts that a policy such as UBI may have on public finances and how these might be addressed. As the evidence base is limited, our intent is not to advocate a policy stance but rather to open a discussion based on global, shared experiences.

Between 2017 and 2019, Barcelona was one of the first European cities to implement a basic income experiment, the B-MINCOME pilot, aimed at reducing poverty and social exclusion in a low-income area of the city. A new cash grant was designed along with a package of active policies. Four modalities of participation were then established depending on two criteria: whether attending these policies was mandatory or not, and whether participants’ additional income altered the amount of the grant or was instead net added on top. The context which initially moulded the pilot is firstly explained. Then, the cash schema and the active policies are described followed by an explanation of its experimental design. The main results at individual, community and institutional levels formerly released in the official reports are now integrated and jointly addressed. Finally, conclusions discuss some issues raised by the pilot’s results in light of the findings gathered in other similar basic income...