Today, many in the national and international NGO community perceive globalization and economic liberalization as a … a rapidly globalizing world the real culprit is not globalization itself but rather a lack of economic reforms and … order to fight poverty, NGO's should not oppose globalization and economic liberalization but rather instrumentalize them in …

. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …

In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low …

tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database … in pension systems that are targeted and will be the lowest in universal systems. In Belgium (targeted minimum pension … than for elderly men and this gender difference is greater in the Netherlands than in Belgium. The paradox of …

This paper analyses and compares the roles which Belgium and Italy have played in the process of European monetary … of the Belgian and Italian EMU strategies and the concrete contributions made by Belgium and Italy. Overall, these two … to be skilful negotiators. The main difference is that Belgium has been a constant and consistent "pace-setter" in …

European countries: Belgium and Italy. We focus on the post-World War II period, taking as the main message of Keynesian …. The study shows that Belgium and Italy were two countries were Keynesian economics gained ground only relatively late. The … countries was the strong position of fundamentalist Keynesianism in the academic world in Italy, while in Belgium …