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Minimum income and social integration: Institutional arrangements in Europe
Fighting Social Exclusion Series
Summary (English)
This document deals with the different institutional arrangements of minimum income and social integration policies in Europe. It stems from the synthesis report the authors prepared for the EU peer review process, which aimed at placing the Belgian DIS policy in a comparative European context. Five questions are addressed in this document concerning: the increasing importance of social assistance and activation schemes in Europe; the main features of the welfare systems within which social assistance policies are embedded; the characteristics of the Belgian DIS which are relevant in a comparative perspective; the impact of the changes and the critical issues that have emerged; and what can one learns from the comparison.
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