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What is the impact of investing in social services and policies on macro indicators of sustainable wellbeing?

Climate change, demographic ageing, labour market restructuring, and growing social inequalities create major challenges for welfare states and raise questions about how to organise social protection and public investment in social services and policies in a way that is both socially fair and environmentally sustainable. In the paper “Macro-regularities...

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Key questions to navigate the EU future

SWINS introduces an impact oriented framework to assess the transformative returns of investment in social policies and services, combining conceptual advances with methodological innovation. The added value of the project approach rests on three pillars: An integrated methodological toolkit, which allows us to capture both individual behaviours and systemic...

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