Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Together with a team of Spanish and international researchers coordinated by the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros, J-PAL Europe is partnering with the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration to launch a Policy Lab focused...
Monday, July 18, 2022
Human Rights Watch is not the first to lament the frailties of Spain's social protection. In 2019, the European Commission highlighted that "the capacity of social transfers other than pensions to reduce poverty remains among the lowest in...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Wales has become the latest country to explore the idea of a universal basic income, which gives every adult a fixed amount of money, regardless of their employment status. Announcing plans for a pilot scheme was a bold move by the first...
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Friday, April 30, 2021
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Nine months after European leaders agreed the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of €672.5...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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How do parties integrate the views of voters into their policy platforms? Drawing on a new study of social...
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
Alors que la pauvreté s'accroît à cause de la crise du coronavirus, la question du revenu universel revient sur la table. La mairie de Paris va lancer une réflexion pour instaurer un revenu minimum garanti, et ainsi concrétiser une promesse de campagne d...
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Monday, December 14, 2020
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The US state of California has voted to keep rideshare and delivery industry workers as independent...
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Monday, November 23, 2020
Christine Jardine, a Scottish politician who represents Edinburgh in the UK parliament, was not a fan of universal basic income before the pandemic hit. "It was regarded in some quarters as a kind of socialist idea," said Jardine, a member of the...
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Monday, July 6, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the “utterly inadequate” state of Spain’s social protection system, according to a former UN poverty expert who is calling on the government to ensure its actions on basic rights “live up to the rhetoric”. Philip...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Spain has been hard hit by Covid-19, both in terms of high death toll and worsening economic conditions. Government lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus left millions of households without earnings or temporary unemployed. A recent report...