Reports
In our reports we respond to specific, concrete questions based on thorough research. All our research concludes with recommendations to government, enterprises, civil society and individuals.
An appropriate answer to the banking crisis in Belgium
The financial crisis we’re going through urges us to fundamentally rethink our financial system. We often pretend to be entirely dependent of foreign solutions for our problems. In this nota, it is shown we can actually control for a few things ourselves.
Temporary agency work as a transition for a more efficient labour market?
Temporary agency work has known an important expansion during the last 40 years. Today, 3,3 million agency workers are employed on a daily basis in the European Union. In 2012 they will be 5 million.
The Price of Political Crisis: Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Belgium and the Netherlands
Political crisis is no longer 'news' in Belgium or the Netherlands. Less well understood is the toll that this controversy is taking on patterns of economic policymaking.
Let’s rethink our pension system
In the context of globalisation and ageing, everybody agrees that short term measures have no future. Since 1960 the average pension length has gone from 8 to more than 20 years. It is expected that in the coming 40 years there will be tree times less actives for every pensioner.
Is Belgium prepared for the cost of ageing?
Ageing inevitably increases the pressure on the resources of the social security system and calls for adequate policy reforms.
Philanthropy: What’s in it for Belgium?
Marieke Huysentruyt gives an introduction to the global philanthropy phenomenon and shows how one can draw lessons from it on creativity and innovation.