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Intergenerational fairness blogs
Following on from our survey of 10,000 citizens in 10 European countries, we asked a range of experts how to ensure the fair distribution of resources between generations; their responses are below.
Europe’s sustainability agenda relates closely to today’s young and future generations
Caring for future generations lies at the heart of Europe's decades-long efforts to ensure environmental and resource sustainability.
Don’t raise expectations that can’t be fulfilled
Improving policy-making by learning lessons from auditors’ evaluations of youth unemployment schemes.
Acting today to secure a safe tomorrow
Establishing mechanisms to guarantee the well-being of future generations is not a new idea: rather, it marks the return of a longstanding principle to help build a safe, sustainable and shared future for all.
Social spending on children vs pensioners
In recent years social policies have tended to favour one generation over the other. To ensure intergenerational fairness, spending must be distributed more equally across age groups.
An ageing continent: Europe’s real big issue
Europeans need to consider the real impact of ageing societies on younger generations – and to urgently take steps to share the cost of demographic upheaval more fairly.
Public financial management in New Zealand – the intergenerational dimension
Fiscal control and the use of accrual information can play a key role in helping governments to enhance intergenerational equity. Embedding intergenerational ‘wellbeing’ into the national budget brings new challenges and opportunities.
Intergenerational Fairness survey
This survey of 10,000 Europeans explores whether they feel their generations are being treated fairly by government and whether they trust that their governments are taking account of the longer-term financial impact of policies.
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Pathways to 'fair progress' in developing countries
Enhancing economic mobility across generations, particularly in developing economies, requires a range of different policy interventions, encouraging intergenerational fairness and economic prosperity at the same time.
Fostering intergenerational solidarity
Solidarity between generations is a value to foster, including through public action, and can help a more consensual resolution to some of the more difficult parts of the policies needed in view of demographic change.
Promoting commitments to the next generations
Sustainable development goes hand in hand with the protection of future generations’ interests. This requires action at a political as well as individual level.
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