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Mock solution to pseudo poor people

01/12/2009 | News

BI partner gave a presentation with the above title in a college of the Corvinus University of Budapest.

In the presentation given in response to the invitation of the Special College for Social Theory on 1. december 2009, Ágota Scharle explained how the public perceives social assistance recepients and how this impression matches reality. The talk also discussed the efficiency of the recently introduced or proposed government measures aimed at eliminating exclusion and poverty.

Government is merely a means to an end, viz. the happiness of the whole community and the individuals composing it. (James Mill, 1820)