Towards the convergence between people-based and place-based approaches in poverty reduction strategies : lessons learned from the B-MINCOME pilot project

This research is a scientific and systematic study of the B-MINCOME pilot project, an EU-Urban Innovative Action implemented between late 2016 and late 2019 in the city of Barcelona, with the aim of testing new forms of public intervention in the fight against social exclusion and poverty. By combining guaranteed minimum income and active social policies in deprived urban areas, the project addressed the relationship between individual poverty area poverty. The rigorous evaluation of its effects at the individual, community, and institutional level has been conducted under the lens of convergence between traditional place-based and people-based policy approaches to assess whether and how the combination of different anti-poverty strategies could effectively address the multidimensionality of urban poverty phenomenon.