El futuro que habita entre nosotros

The persistence of child poverty shames and morally degrades the society that consents to it while expressing its myopia and lack of interest in the future: investing in the well-being of children improves social cohesion in the present and lays the foundations for a brighter tomorrow prosperous. In this book, José Antonio Alonso, a specialist in development economics, offers an enlightening, deep and comprehensive analysis of a complex reality that challenges everyone. To do this, he explores the different faces with which child poverty is presented in a society that he describes as fractal, and discusses its causes and the measures to combat it, both in poor countries and in the most developed ones. Far from considering them passive beings, only in need of protection, the author emphasizes the agency capacity of minors and their condition as subjects of rights, capable of influencing their environment. This recognition leads him to discuss the responsibilities that any society that claims to be decent has towards them, in accordance with agreed criteria of justice. The limitations in the transfer of this recognition to the space of political, voice and vote rights, places minors at a disadvantage compared to other groups in the struggle for public resources. Correcting this bias implies, in the author's opinion, building a minimum floor of universal guarantees on which to define more specialized policies that put the welfare of minors at the center of their objectives.