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  1. CALL FOR PAPERS – Corona: Challenging Social Work

    …ties within and between countries and regions are being exacerbated, while new ones are already being created. If most societies in the North can still absorb these economic and social costs of COVID-19, to some extent, because of their considerable resources, the case will hardly be the same or even possible in the countries of the Global South. This pandemic aggravates the situation in poorer countries and at the same time increases global inequ…

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  3. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. A Sociological Perspective

    …t job creation, entrepreneurship, and youth employment. – Tensions between national and international employment policies in global unemployment challenges. – Evaluation of socio-economic impacts of active and passive labor market policies and other unemployment preventive measures (e.g., outplacement programs, professional reorientation schemes). Keywords: SDG8, Pay gap, Unemployment, Labor-market issues, Social insurance, Working poor, Precarity…

  4. Evidence and Practice in an age of inequality 5th ACFID Universities Network Conference

    The UNDP noted at the end of 2013, ‘The world is more unequal today than at any point since World War II’. As we celebrate the achievements of the BRICs and as debates unfold on the new Sustainable Development Goals, inequality in multiple manifestations has persisted and in some cases worsened. Inequality relates to income or material inequality, but also extends to interrelated issues of access to vital resources including health, education, an…

  5. HDCA Member Views on the Capability Approach

    …onomic growth. Instead, education is important in a richer way; it has instrumental (e.g. getting a job) and intrinsic (e.g. a love of reading for its own sake) value and transformative potential (e.g. greater gender equality). Education is also valuable for its democratic contributions; it can teach us to reason and deliberate with others – critically, and in an informed way. Education has interpersonal effects in opening up opportunities for oth…

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