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June 28, 2019
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  Client:  Save the Children   Summary: KSNET has collaborated in a report named “El futuro donde queremos crecer” by Save the Children providing an analysis of the reality of Spanish children, describing the evolution in the past years and the main trends for 2022 and 2030. In addition, KSNET has identified the main changes that would be necessary in terms of social protection, health, education and work-life balance in order to revert the current situation.   Date: 2019   Read report...

June 28, 2019
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  Client: Departament de Treball, Afers Socials i Famílies – Generalitat de Catalunya.   Summary: KSNET has used the microdata from the 2017 Survey on Living Conditions in order to develop a profiling of monoparentality in Catalonia.   Date: 2018  ...

June 28, 2019
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Client: Save the Children   Summary: The aim of this study is to analyze the scholarship system in Spain in order to provide policy suggestions aimed at improving its efficiency and equity. More precisely, the study analyses the scholarships’ legal framework, the level of scholarships’ expenditure in comparison to other countries and the progressivity of the current system. The analysis focuses on identifying the beneficiaries of grants and scholarships according to their income levels.   Date: 2018   Read report...

June 28, 2019
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Client: D'Aleph   Summary: KSNET, jointly with D’Aleph, has developed a methodology to compute the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona’s living wage based on the methodology used by the Metropolitan Area of London (Greater London) and developed by researchers from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This consists of computing and quantifying a budget that covers the basic needs for different family types that allows them to live with dignity.   Date: 2017   Read report...

November 7, 2018
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Client: Save the children   Summary: The aim of this report is to quantify the cost of raising a child. To do so, we compute the minimum cost to raise children of different ages that allows them to live with dignity   Date: 2018   Read report...

November 7, 2018
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Client: Fundació Pi i Sunyer   Summary: This report studies the theoretical background with respect to local financial methods by comparing different big cities worldwide. The report also analyses the local funding system in Barcelona and compares it to that of the rest of cities in the study. Finally, some proposals to improve the funding system in Barcelona are stated.   Date: 2017...

November 7, 2018
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Client: Metropolitan Area of Barcelona   Summary: The aim of this report is to study the income needs in all municipalities of the Barcelona metropolitan area and their capacity to give an answer to them. Moreover, the report analyses different local financial ways that could be used to avoid inequity situations among citizens depending on their municipality of residence.   Date: 2018   Read report...

November 7, 2018
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Client: Department of Culture – Catalan Government (Departament de Cultura – Generalitat de Catalunya)   Summary: KSNET has carried out the work of collecting and exploiting data on cultural local public spending in Catalonia. The first part of the report involves the gathering of data through telephone calls and surveys to all the local entities: municipalities, city halls, county councils, councils and foundations. The second part consists of debugging the collected data and prepare some descriptive statistics.   Date: 2017   Read report...

November 7, 2018
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Client: L’Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council (Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet de Llobregat)   Summary: The aim of this report is to develop a theoretical framework on income-based pricing system and to carry out a diagnosis of the actual system in Hospitalet. The first section describes the theoretical framework and reviews the relevant literature. The second section analyses all the social services working under income-based price in the city.  This analysis focuses on the type of users, the expenditure needs, the tariff system, the funding and the coverage...

November 7, 2018
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Client: Cardedeu City Council (Ajuntament de Cardedeu)   Summary: The goal of this report is to make a proposal in order to improve the progressivity of the city’s taxes, so the council moves towards a fairer and more distributive tax system. The first section describes a taxing theoretical framework, its progressivity and studies the available fiscal tools to meet the council’s objectives. The second section analyses the tax burden and progressivity in Cardedeu while the third one analyses the inhabitants’ income levels and inequality...