Phobia and weakness : how Belgium can drop its fixation on mini-jobs
Marc De Vos offers an alternative to the black-and-white debate on the German mini-jobs. We can maintain the advantages of the mini-jobs while avoiding its disadvantages by reforming unemployment insurance into employment insurance.
De-tracking school: helping the weak, keeping the best
Poland is a successful reformer in terms of performance and inequality: in less than 6 years, it has raised the performance in reading of its 15 years old in PISA by the equivalent of half a school year.
Compulsory education in the French community in Belgium : what can it learn from foreign educational systems?
Denoël and Gérard demonstrate the stakes of quality education and identify the four keys of success of educational systems that have made the most progress. Next, they propose runways to improve our educational system.
Strong performers and successful reformers in education
In today’s global economy, countries need high-quality education systems that will teach their citizens the skills necessary to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Greening the budget; a (too) high social price?
Belgium has rather low environmental taxes. A radical fiscal greening could yield between € 3 and 5 billion per year, which allows a reduction of personal income taxes by 7 up to 11%.