Avram, Silvia (2016) Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: A pre-transfer post-transfer comparison. Journal of European Social Policy, 26 (5). pp. 428-441. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928716664296
Avram, Silvia (2016) Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: A pre-transfer post-transfer comparison. Journal of European Social Policy, 26 (5). pp. 428-441. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928716664296
Avram, Silvia (2016) Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: A pre-transfer post-transfer comparison. Journal of European Social Policy, 26 (5). pp. 428-441. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928716664296
Abstract
The anti-poverty impact of national social assistance programmes in eight Central and Eastern European countries is examined using data from the European Union-Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Results indicate that social assistance programmes achieve only limited poverty reduction, while spending a significant amount of their resources on the non-poor. The more extensive and generous programmes achieve higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Efficiency on the other hand appears to be linked only to programme size and not to benefit levels. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency could be detected.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Central and Eastern Europe, poverty, redistribution, social assistance |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Social and Economic Research |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2016 09:47 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 16:15 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/18208 |
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