Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with … the literature on the effects of sanctions in social welfare systems and we present first results on the effects of … sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with … the literature on the effects of sanctions in social welfare systems and we present first results on the effects of … sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

The almshouse dominated the thinking about poverty and the poor during America's period of industrialization and its …

welfare system unquestionably helps support the least fortunate among us, but, in making poverty less onerous, it may … recipiency, welfare programs simultaneously mitigate and exacerbate the problem of poverty. A "new altruistic" approach that … remain in poverty. …

alarming with respect to economic well-being as the poverty level especially among the STs. Slow progress in expected change in … the welfare and development of these (SC/ST) communities has not been fulfilled in implementation. Nevertheless the recent … violation of norms like equity, equality and social justice that ought to be followed in the development process in a welfare …

. We argue that analysis of subjective wellbeing can be used to enrich and validate the process of poverty analysis in the …