Marcus Ampe
Some personal thoughts and reactions by Marcus Ampe. - Enkele persoonlijke gedachten en reacties van Marcus Ampe.
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Tag Archives: Flanders
Gaasbeek Castle’s Sleeping nude Beauties
When director Luc Vanackere took over Gaasbeek Castle in 2003 with its 40 hectares of grounds about 10 kilometres west of Brussels, he felt that as a museum, Gaasbeek was rather static – a place “you visited once and were not … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Brabant, Bruges, Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Gaasbeek Castle, Low Countries, Sleeping Beauties, Spencer Tunick
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Non Dutch speaking children and withdrawing teachers
In past years, the spring has been marked in the city by the sight of parents camping outside their school of preference to try to hook one of the few places open. This schoolyear we did not hear about such … Continue reading
Lindau talks and consequences for Belgium and Europe
The Flemish job market still shows a significant gap between immigrants and native Flemings, as one in every four Flemish job seekers is an immigrant. Among people with an immigrant origin unemployment is down by only 3% according to the … Continue reading
Posted in Economy
Tagged Belgium, Daniel McFadden, Edmund Phelps, Eric Maskin, Euro, European Union, Flanders, John Nash, Nash equilibrium
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Beasts of burden
Is it not nice to hear that the number of animals used for scientific experiments in Belgium has dropped by 75% between 2000 and 2009, and toxicity tests now represent less than 2% of all experiments using animals, in particular … Continue reading
Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #12 Conclusion
Poverty evolution in Flanders 12. Conclusion The Flemish poverty risk percentage (12%) lay in 2009 clearly lower than the EU27-average (16%). Flanders gets a 5° place with that in the EU27. That has been signalled better than the years before … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economy, Education, Environment and Ecology, Food, Religion, Welfare and Health, World
Tagged Assistance, Authority, Belgium, Biodiversity, Capitalism, community, culture, Czech Republic, discrimination, diversity, duty, Education, Environment and Ecology, European Community, European Union, family, financial risks, Flanders, Flemish Parliament, food, global security, household, Human, human development, Income, Income Guaranty, industrialization, injustice, justice, Life-long Learning, minority, network, non-violence, peace, Poverty, poverty trap, problems, Respect, responsibility, Risk, Slovakia, Slovenia, social assistance, social environment, socio-economic difference, solidarity, Sustainable development, technology, Unemployment, universe, work opportunity
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #11 Participation
Poverty evolution in Flanders 11. Participation Poverty and insecurity are finally combined with discrimination in terms of social integration and participation. Thus the most vulnerable groups participate less in culture, sports and social life. The last few years certain theatres … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Welfare and Health
Tagged Antwerp, Artist, Belgium, European Union, Flanders, Flemish Community, Flemish people, Poverty, social integration, sport, television, Theatre
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #10 Health
Poverty evolution in Flanders 10. Health In the previous chapters we saw that poverty in our society is a connection of many elements, often at the same time present with poor families, difficulties in the education, bad employment chances, a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Environment and Ecology, Welfare and Health
Tagged Accommodation, Belgium, Budget, Building material, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Cash transfer, community, consumerism, consumption, Dignity, disease, eating disorder, Education, European Union, expenses, family, financial risks, Flanders, food, health, Health care, ilness, Income, injustice, Life, Life Expectation, Lifestyle, living conditions, Netherlands, Non-communicable disease, nutrition, Old age, Poverty, prevention, Quality of Life, rent, social exclusion, social inclusion, social injustice, transport, Unemployment, WHO, work circumstances
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #9 Consumption
Poverty evolution in Flanders 9. Consumption People with higher incomes are likely to consume more goods and services, and to attribute a far higher proportion of their expenditure to ‘non-essentials’ such as holidays, visits to restaurants, or other leisure activities. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment and Ecology, Welfare and Health
Tagged Belgium, consumer, consumerism, consumption, credit, debt, deprivation, deterioration, disability, durable goods, Earth Charter, ecological systems, ecosystem, elderly, environmental protection, European Union, expenses, Flanders, Flemish people, Gewaarborgd Inkomen, household expenditure, housing, impoverishment, Income, Income Guaranty, industry, Labour economics, leefloon, living wage, maintenance allowance, media, National Bank of Belgium, Old age, payment, Poverty, Poverty risk, precaution, resources, Saving, self-regulation, self-sustaining, Single-parent, Society, sustainability, Unemployment, Welfare and Health
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #8 Work
Poverty evolution in Flanders 8. Work Work-related factors were the principal explanations given as to why people were poor or excluded from society, the three main reasons being long-term unemployment (35 % of respondents giving it as one of up … Continue reading
Posted in Welfare and Health
Tagged Ageing, Baby-boom, Belgium, Breadwinner, Brussels, childcare, crime, Cyprus, Education, Employment, European Foundation, European Union, Eurostat, exclusion, Flanders, Germany, household, Hungary, immigrant, Income, Ireland, Italy, Median household Income, Member state of the European Union, migration, Netherlands, Poland, Poverty, Poverty risk, poverty threshold, Retirement, revenue, Risk, Single-parent, Social Security, Unemployment, United States, Wallonia, Welfare state, work
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #7 Education
Poverty evolution in Flanders 7. Education Education, which can directly provide the skills, knowledge and qualifications that are important in social and labour market participation, in Flanders seems very well taken care off. It starts at age 2.5 when almost … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Welfare and Health
Tagged Achievement, Action, Assimilation Contract, Behaviour, Belgium, citizen, consumer, consumerism, consumption, Critical thinking, culture, Education, Educational Subjects, Educational System, Elio Di Rupo, Environment and Ecology, Ethics, European Union, Flanders, funding, future, human development, Human rights, inburgering, isolation, Labour economics, learning, leefloon, Life, Lifestyle, maintenance allowance, maths, naturalization, OCMW, parent, parental leave, perspective, population growth, population increase, Poverty, Religion, responsibility, School System, Schooling, Secondary Education, skill, social environment, subsidy, System Schools, teacher, urban decay, Values, VDAB, Welfare and Health, Western World, work opportunity
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #6 Transport factor of immobilising financial growth
Poverty evolution in Flanders 6. Transport factor of immobilising financial growth At the “Year 2000 International Research Conference on Social Security” in Helsinki (25 -27 September 2000) they came to the conclusion that the high poverty level in countries with … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Welfare and Health, World
Tagged Automobile, Belgium, Benefit Payements, Bicycle, CO2, community, economy, Education, Fietswinkels, Flanders, Free Services, generation, human capital, infrastructure, ISTP, Leefdaal, low-cost services, natural capital, Poverty, public institutional capital, public sector, recycling, Retirement, Social Security, social services, stewardship, taxe rate, wealth, Welfare and Health, Welfare trap, work, World Bank
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #5 Housing
Poverty evolution in Flanders 5. Housing Just over 84 million persons or 17 % of the EU-27‘s population were at-risk-of-poverty in 2007, while a similar proportion (17 %) of the total EU-27 population suffered from material deprivation. There was a … Continue reading
Posted in Welfare and Health, World
Tagged Affordable housing, Antwerp, Asocial Behaviour, Basic Facilities, Belgium, Brussel, Brussels, Budget, crime, economic pressure, Education, electricity, England, Environment and Ecology, European Council, European Union, Flanders, gas, Germany, Ghent, Homelessness, housing, incentive, Income, learning, Member state of the European Union, overcrowding, Poverty, restriction, social exclusion, Social Housing, tenant, Unemployment, Welfare and Health
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #4 The Family pact
Poverty evolution in Flanders 4. The Family pact Family and poverty: there is a narrow mutual connection between both terms. Poverty makes humans vulnerable and can destroy families. Sometimes the poverty goes so far that they take away the revenue … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Poverty, Upbringing and Education, Warning, Welfare and Health, World
Tagged Antwerp, Armoede, Belgium, Benefit, Brazil, Child, childcare, Christianity, co-eldership, community, Czech Republic, delinquent behaviour, divorce, drugs, Education, Employment, entertainment, Europe, European Union, family, Flanders, France, generation, Ghent, Home, Hungary, Income, Labour economics, labour market, Life, living conditions, marriage, Netherlands, partnership, Poland, population, population increase, Poverty, poverty threshold, problems, securities, sex, Single-parent, social injustice, social relations, Unemployment, United Kingdom, Violence, wedlock
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #3 Right to Human dignity
Poverty evolution in Flanders Right to Human dignity Universality – the idea that human rights apply to all people, in all places, at all times – was the basic principle underlying the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. From the … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Welfare and Health
Tagged Advocacy Organizations, Belgium, Biotechnology, Child, community, crime, Dignity, discrimination, drugs, Ethics, European Union, euthanasia, Flanders, Freedom, Human, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, ilness, Life, migration, Philosophy, Poverty, Respect, social care, social services, Social Welfare, Society, solutions, suffering, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Welfare and Health, woman
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Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #2 First two decennia of 21st century
Poverty evolution in Flanders First two decennia of 21st century The poor and their representative organisations were actively involved in most of the theme groups, which were established for welfare, youth, culture and sports, housing, health, education, employment and social … Continue reading
Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #1 Up to 21st century
Do you think the welfare state is self-defeating and actually makes people poorer? Are the poor people themselves responsible for their situation? Is delivery of welfare by the government and – indirectly – by the taxpayers economically efficient or inefficient. … Continue reading
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