*New* Call for Manuscripts – Zero Poverty World: Minimum Income Protections Across the Globe (6/15/25)
Posted: 6/5/2025 ()
The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence has a right to a minimum income enabling social participation, be it frugally and soberly, holds as a fundamental matter of social justice to most people. These questions have occupied social policy scholars for decades. Many of these issues still have open questions. Is there a viable way forward towards minimum income provisions that protect against poverty? What can the role be of public services and in-kind benefits? What can we expect from the breathtaking advances in timely administrative data, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in terms of reducing non-take-up and expediting benefit payments? What is the (remaining) role for social workers and how much discretionary power should they have? What is the impact of migration on minimum income schemes and political support for such schemes?
ESPAnet (European Network for Social Policy Analysis) and AIPRIL (the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality) are organizing a workshop to take stock where we stand in the field of minimum income support across the globe and how we can move forward. To apply, send an abstract of up to 500 words by 15 June 2025 to ninke.mussche@uantwerpen.be, mentioning ‘Espanet/ AIPRIL Workshop’ as the subject.
We are open to a wide range of papers relating to minimum income protection (also for workers). We particularly welcome contributions drawing on rigorous qualitative and/or quantitative evidence. We will not require finalized papers but a first draft is essential if we want to have a substantive and fruitful discussion.
You will also have the chance of course to present your paper.
Two lunches and one dinner will be provided to presenters, but travel and accommodation are at your own expense.
Provisional schedule
| First day: Tuesday 16 September | Second day: Wednesday 17 September | |
| 9:00 | Minimum income protection: where do we stand? (Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx, Julia Shu-Huah Wang) | Keynote: Kenneth Nelson (University of Oxford) |
| 10:00 | Session 4 | |
| 11:00 | Session 1 | |
| 12:00 | Wrap-up and general discussion | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Keynote Marcello Natili (University of Milan) | |
| 15:00 | Session 2 | |
| 16:00 | ||
| 17:00 | Session 3 | |
| 18:00 | ||
| 19:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 |