Combating Poverty Through ‘Active Inclusion’? The European and National Contexts

摘要: This chapter describes the supranational and national contexts for recent local-level initiatives to combat poverty social exclusion in Europe. It first discusses emergence early 2000s of ‘active inclusion’, a European Union (EU) policy strategy intended guide member state actions inclusion. then considers turn two major obstacles which this has been confronted subsequently, namely substantial but even impacts Great Recession end decade considerable institutional diversity existing anti-poverty policies countries. An analysis reforms five countries shows that divergent legacies differing socio-economic situations are most important understanding current reform agendas field.