Theme
Prosperity
Itinera gaat voor een samenleving waar het aangenaam is om te leven, waar frisse, ambitieuze ideeën de kans krijgen uit te groeien tot duurzame ondernemingen, waar onderwijs jongeren klaarstoomt en zin geeft, en waar innovaties transformeren in succesvolle producten in een economie die blijft bloeien.
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.
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.
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%.
SME Debt Finance with Secured Household Pension Funds and Unsecured Securitized Debt
The central objective is to channel long-term household funds from short-term saving accounts to long-term funds for SMEs helping to cover the SME financing gap.