maandag 4 oktober 2010
Eurozone reform: Not yet fiscal discipline, but a good start
EU fiscal consolidation after the financial crisis: Lessons from past experiences
Cutting edge
Read this article in The Economist here.
Joseph Stiglitz dénonce les politiques d'austérité menées en Europe
Marché de l'emploi : «Un redressement ? Pas avant 2015 !»
vrijdag 1 oktober 2010
ACTING NOW FOR BETTER HEALTH: A 30%REDUCTION TARGET FOR EU CLIMATE POLICY
America Embraces Trade Discrimination
Vlaams ouderenbeleidsplan pleit voor samenleving voor alle leeftijden
Gelijkheid
Oubliée la crise ? Agoria redémarre
Lisez l'article dans LLB ici.
Plafond du ticket modérateur pour spécialistes à 15,50 €
La justice se retrouve face au défi de l’austérité
woensdag 29 september 2010
The Vaccine war
Vaccines have changed the world, largely eradicating a series of terrible diseases, from smallpox to polio to diphtheria, and likely adding decades to most of our life spans. But despite the gains -- and numerous scientific studies indicating vaccine safety - a growing movement of parents remains fearful of vaccines. And in some American communities, significant numbers of parents have been rejecting vaccines altogether, raising new concerns about the return of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough.
In The Vaccine War, FRONTLINE lays bare the science of vaccine safety and examines the increasingly bitter debate between the public health establishment and a formidable populist coalition of parents, celebrities, politicians and activists who are armed with the latest social media tools -- including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter -- and are determined to resist pressure from the medical and public health establishments to vaccinate, despite established scientific consensus about vaccine safety.
Watch the complete documentary here.
Hôpitaux: le sous-financement devient structurel
Quinze pourcents des Belges vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté
dinsdag 28 september 2010
Jonge bollebozen nemen de benen
Te weinig beurzen voor jonge toponderzoekers. Lees het volledige artikel in De Standaard hier.
France: Les principaux points du projet de loi sur l'immigration
Négociations sur les salaires : modération n’est pas raison
8.657 euros : le prix de la Sécu pour chaque Belge
Gouvernance économique : Reynders favorable aux sanctions
Télé-monitoring ? Trop tôt !
maandag 27 september 2010
“Mother, can I trust the government?” Stable democracies are more likely to enjoy sustained financial development
Peter Praet: Lack of Uniform Resolution Rules a Major Concern
Peter Praet, the executive director of National Bank of Belgium and a top European bank regulator, said a major flaw of international banking oversight is that there is not a uniform set of rules to address the dissolution of failing banks that operate in more than one country.
He said he told international regulators at a meeting in Singapore a few days ago that “the poorer your crisis resolution framework, the higher your capital” requirements should be. In other words, banks that operate in countries that can’t handle the collapse of these banks should force the companies to hold much more of a cushion to protect against potential failure.
“It’s absolutely key that we push that through,” he said at a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago meeting on Friday.
He said some regulators were skittish about pushing too aggressively because of the fragile state of many countries’ financial markets. He said these officials were “a bit scared of going too fast in those things.”
“The situation of public finance will probably force you to be much more courageous,” he said.