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...
The recent resolution of the European Parliament on a future EU Anti-Poverty Strategy marks an important political moment. While the report describes the need for increased social investment, it still falls short on describing further how this paradigm shift could become a turning point to social inclusion, with direct effects...
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...
