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.

Report

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.

28/11/2008

Ivan Van de Cloot

Innovation & Digitisation

Public Finance

Opinion piece

Budgetary extravagance kills Keynes

Because we did not save our margins when the economy was doing well, the average employee will have to pay an extra €3700. This also implicates we will not have the budgetary means of effectively stimulating the economy.

19/11/2008

Ivan Van de Cloot

Innovation & Digitisation

Opinion piece

Entrepreneurship as a source of wealth

Some entrepreneurs chose for the profession out of necessity while others made a deliberate choice in order to grasp a business opportunity. For the first group, push factors like the small amount of job opportunities triggered by a high unemployment were a sufficient motivation.

22/09/2008

Ivan Van de Cloot

Work

Report

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.

18/09/2008

Itinera

Work

Report

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.

23/06/2008

Erik Jones

Innovation & Digitisation

Public Finance

Book

Climate Relativism

The popular climate story neglects the end of the fossil energy era. An energy transition is therefore necessary. This challenge requires a consistent policy answer. In the long run, it offers the potential for important future wealth creation.

05/11/2007

Johan Albrecht

Climate & Energy

Opinion piece

The digital gap does not exist

Approximately 90% of the Flemish between 18 and 45 years old dispose of a computer and access to the internet. Whereas the digital gap in terms of ICT possession was only recently filled, a new form of digital inequality suddenly emerges.

29/10/2007

Johan Albrecht

Innovation & Digitisation

Poverty & Inequality

Opinion piece

Final Call for Belgium?

Marc De Vos gives a critical and constructive appraisal of the ongoing Belgian political crisis for international readers.

08/10/2007

Marc De Vos

Innovation & Digitisation

Public Finance

Book

From Job Security to Employment Security on the Belgian labour Market

Where is our labour market going in the 21st century? How do we handle ageing and globalisation successfully? Can we finally push back mass unemployment? Can we combine more flexibility with more security? Can we make older people work more? Can we finally include foreigners in the labo...

27/06/2007

Marc De Vos

Work

Society

Prosperity

Democracy & Good Governance

Regionale verschillen in politieke dichtheid tonen het besparingspotentieel van bestuurlijke vereenvoudiging en verbetering

Reports

Podcasts

Opinion pieces

Books

Webinars

Regionale verschillen in politieke dichtheid tonen het besparingspotentieel van bestuurlijke vereenvoudiging en verbetering

Prosperity

An appropriate answer to the banking crisis in Belgium

Budgetary extravagance kills Keynes

Entrepreneurship as a source of wealth

Temporary agency work as a transition for a more efficient labour market?

The Price of Political Crisis: Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Belgium and the Netherlands

Climate Relativism

The digital gap does not exist

Final Call for Belgium?

From Job Security to Employment Security on the Belgian labour Market