Equal opportunities is the starting point for ensuring that well-being is not a privilege of a few, but a horizon shared by the many. Yet Argentina faces a pressing challenge: over the past 20 years, poverty has never fallen below 25%, and today it affects 35% of the population. Labor informality impacts 42% of workers, and more than 6,400 informal settlements lack access to basic services.
Without well-being, there can be no sustainable development, no social cohesion, and no democratic legitimacy.
We work to move social policy beyond the role of a safety net, transforming it into a platform of opportunity—one that strengthens the social fabric, enhances people’s capabilities, and expands their well-being.
Well-being must integrate territories, because urban segregation reproduces inequalities and limits access to opportunities. Transforming informal settlements involves providing basic infrastructure, transportation, security, and quality public spaces.
Well-being must also protect career development, since employment is the primary vehicle for social integration. This entails reducing informality, building protection systems that support technological and demographic transitions, and ensuring that all people have a basic floor to plan and project their lives.
Shared well-being is both a prerequisite for and a result of development. It depends on macroeconomic stability to endure, on productive growth that generates quality jobs, and on a capable State that creates the conditions for all life projects to flourish. These are the challenges before us today.
