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Social Policy and Aid, Trade and Economic Development of the EU • Welfare state: General objective: improve human living conditions Actions: state-sponsored programmes. Concrete purposes: - Preventing/Alleviating poverty - Redistributing income across the life course - Offset special needs of groups with disables people and families In the EU the nation-state remains responsible for providing and financing social services and social transfers. Welfare regimes: - Government can establish specialized public agencies - Governement outsources provisions to private organizations Tax financed social trasfers account for between 10-20% of GDP of EU Member countries Gross vs disposable income Three types of welfare: Liberal • Celebrate property/ market • Liberal regimes impose a line between self-reliant citizens and those that depend on the State (Puritanism) • Education-Health care: marked by the class division • Social security/Social housing: protect the poor • Flexible labour market • Governements: trade-off between pressure for increased social expenditure and low level of tax tolerance. Three types of welfare: Conservative • Capitalism is welcomed as an engine of economic growth but social transfers are used to compensate market losers and preserve social cohesion. • Interventions are managed by representatives of employers and workers. • Social democratic regimes: social insurance and social partnership are in an egalitarian scheme of social citizenship. •The State plays a primary role in providing citizens with highest suitable degree of income secuity and high quality services. Three types of welfare: Social democratic system • Social transfers are designed to foster social solidarity based on commitment to the ideal of pepole’s home. • All citizens are entitled to a tax-financed basic retirement pension with earning related pensions (unitary national insurance scheme). What’s about EU ? • Differences across EU regimes: very complicated to harmonize • Countries with generous social standards are less prone to scale down their workers’ entitlements to social benefits • Publishing some EU Directives... Future perspectives: • Families are increasingly fragile • Motherhood and employment status • Social exclusion • Retirement scheme Aid, Trade and Economic Development EU position in the international network: • Historical ‘heritage’ : France and UK have a network of low/medium income economies Aids: - Recipients accepts for a variety of reasons - Scope: develop a project or addressed to an agency Lines of interventions: • Complementarieties with other programmes implemented by the EU countries. • Coordination between EU and Member States • Coherence and consistency of all external activity Mainstream objectives: • Promotion of Human Rights, gender equality, environment... • Infrastructures • Preferential Trade Agreements. Some data....