Salute e benessere Negli ultimi decenni i sistemi di welfare moderni hanno dovuto confrontarsi direttamente con le conseguenze della libera circolazione di persone, beni e servizi, indotta dall’apertura dei mercati. Il fenomeno della globalizzazione ha innescato processi di “convergenza” e “divergenza”, che hanno favorito l’integrazione delle economie emergenti di alcuni...
Nonostante le difficoltà dovute alla pandemia, dal 19 al 21 novembre 2020, migliaia di giovani da tutto il mondo — imprenditori, studenti, ricercatori, docenti — hanno risposto all’appello di Papa Francesco, ritrovandosi online per condividere idee e progetti nel corso dell’evento The Economy of Francesco (EoF). In realtà, già dal...
Introduction Even before the new social encyclical Fratelli Tutti (henceforth FT) was issued last October 3, 2020, reservations were raised by various media about the supposed partiality of its title; some thought it should have been extended to ‘sorelle tutte’ to include women more explicitly in this Pope Francis’s call...
Quezon City, March 10, 2020 The content of this paper was presented on the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Dominican Family Training on the Salamanca Process and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which was held over March 7-13, 2020 at the De Meester Residence, St. Theresa’s College, in Quezon City...
Background The Digital Agenda for Europe (2010), one of the pillars of the Europe 2020 Strategy, has set objectives for growth in the European Union by 2020. Itproposes to develop a digital single market, allowing a better utilization of the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) among its member...
The concept of inequality expresses difference, i.e. a condition that is not the same for all, reflecting a variety that mutually enriches our humanity and that popular wisdom in some countries defines as the “beauty” of the world. Because it implies a disparity between equals, however, inequality can induce undue...
Two global phenomena are profoundly impacting our modern societies, and raising new and complex challenges for our life in common, including the need to redesign welfare systems and restructure the provision of goods and services. The first phenomenon is population ageing. For the first time in history, the majority of...
Lo scorso di mese marzo 2016, la Confederazione Sindacale Internazionale (CSI o ITUC nell’acronimo inglese) ha pubblicato un Rapporto redatto dall’organizzazione indipendente Womens’ Budget Group e intitolato “Investing in Care Economy”, in cui si sostiene la necessità di promuovere con decisione l’investimento pubblico, non tanto in infrastrutture fisiche, quanto in...
