In recent weeks the newspapers were full of news on measures implemented by many stakeholders to address the economic and financial crisis in progress at the international level. In Italy it would seem that the actions proposed or actually implemented primarily relate to the assistance to "poor."
On the one hand, the national government and regional and local governments have identified and launched initiatives (often of dubious efficacy) to supplement the incomes of the poor, other measures, characterized by the same objective have been triggered by some dioceses, and even by some groups of workers.
Actions are very different. However all of them seem to have at its center two elements:
- an orientation not to affect the processes that generate poverty and those that generate the phenomena of economic crisis;
- the lack of power of discrimination and discernment.
The most striking example of this is probably the "Social Card" addressed to all persons with income below a threshold set at the national level, it is neither able to take account of regional differences in the country (so that the majority of "cards" were distributed in places where the cost of living is lower and that's probably a part non irrilevante dell’economia è sofferta), né delle diverse maniere in cui i cittadini sono toccati dalla “crisi economica”.
La conseguenza della mancanza di discriminazione e di discernimento comportano non soltanto un impatto nullo delle misure assunte sulle dinamiche economiche e sociali connesse (non producendo né effetti sul rapporto tra domanda e offerta di beni, né sul consolidamento delle reti sociali che nei fatti “gestiscono” le crisi, né tantomeno sull’attivazione di processi che possano favorire una effettiva ripresa di forme di sviluppo del territorio), ma anche un loro impatto assai ridotto sui soggetti alla cui assistenza sono dedicate (l’aiuto offerto infatti è irrelevant to the actual needs of some of them, but that may have advantages for some it is absolutely impossible to access).
seems that in responding to crises and emergencies in progress, has been halted - by the majority of those involved - to take seriously the wealth of existing research on policies and measures on the one hand and local development policies to combat poverty and social exclusion on the other. Research on these two areas have in fact shown that only in few cases is a "tout court" to the financial resources EOA a generic "help" produce an effect of reducing poverty and mobilization processes of change.
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