Concepto de la Inclusion Economica

PANEL

Andy WestwoodOECD

Quito, 16 y 17 de diciembre del 2010

‘access to and participation in economic activityabove poverty or subsistence levels and sustainedover time’(Centre for

Economic

and

Social Inclusion, UK)

• Work, income(s), wealth• Employment, economic

activity, careers

• Financial

security, resilience

• Economic

and

social mobility, better

‘life

chances’

• Economic

development, growth

• High

employment

levels

• Training, skills

What

is

‘Economic

Inclusion’

What

are its features

and

definitions?

What

is

‘Economic

Inclusion’

and

how can it

be measured

or

improved?

• At

the

individual level?

• At

the

level

of

the

family/household?

• At

a geographical

level

–

communities, neighbourhoods, cities, regions?

… and is economic inclusion a short (snapshot) or longer term concept?

Sustainable and longer-term policy interventions:

• Welfare to workforce development• Training to human capital development• Enterprise to economic development• Any jobs to ‘more and better’

jobs

• Trade to high value trade (specialisation, added value, internationalisation)

• Creating and preserving

economic activity

in challenging local and international conditions

• Developing social capital -

trust, business is

easier and less costly

• Economic development depends on

local assets and markets, capital, enterprise

• Supporting social economy and third sector to

develop economic inclusion

Economic

and

social inclusion...

• Support entrepreneurship and economic development (private, social) –

especially locally ‘rooted’

businesses

including SMEs

• Identify and support economic ‘assets’(eg

key public services, business clusters,

colleges, universities

• Build and retain communities’

human capital,

leadership

Economic

inclusion

at

the

local level:

Businesses  and services 

buying and trading locally

Local Multiplier 

Effect driving up 

social capital 

and economy

Attracting 

money, wages 

and investment 

into locality, but 

increasing local 

earnings and 

spending

Building social 

capital – networks, 

volunteering, 

community 

activities, cultureSupporting local 

employment 

and enterprise

Replacing ‘imports’

with local products 

– and externally 

delivered services 

with locally 

designed activity

User led, co‐

produced or 

locally owned 

services

Increasing knowledge, 

skills and leadership  

held in  community

Promoting and 

supporting innovation 

in business and in 

public services

Local Multiplier

Effect

–

locking

in knowledge, finance, skills:

• Social enterprises, community businesses, micro finance, SMEs

• Build social capital –

volunteering,

stakeholding

• But also build and support businesses too

Actors

in local economic

development:

• Multiple definitions• Multiple actors• Multiple benefits• Relative not absolute concept –

ever shifting

• Economic inclusion and social inclusion go together• Develop a sustainable economic model• Support long term definitions of inclusion across

individuals, households and localities

• Things that can be delivered, managed or owned from ‘outside’

provide less long term benefit and can disappear quickly

Economic

Inclusion: