In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...

Social policies are defined as the amount of principles, values and customs which dominates over the social relationship among persons, communities and institutions and signifies state’s measures and actions transposed and within strategies, programs, projects, institutions and legislation....

The transition to the market economy that started in Romania after 1989, and especially the beginning, during the period 1991-2009, of the re-structuring and turning to private ownership of most of the fields of the economy, determined the appearance of certain special social and economic...

In tutti i Paesi ad economia e welfare sviluppati, la spesa sanitaria è, tra le voci di spesa sociale, quella che nelle prossime decadi farà registrare la crescita più intensa in termini di PIL, e soprattutto più soggetta ad alea per la presenza di fattori - lato offerta e lato domanda - il...

The analysis of social policy impact over the labour market focuses on assessing the interdependence between the social protection system and the labour market, and performance of the social policies management, determinant factor in order to achieve simultaneous acceleration for social...

Patterns of poor relief varied greatly amongst nineteenth century Irish cities. To date, however, there has been little examination of the reasons behind these divergences. One possible factor is the divergent occupational and demographic structures of these cities – ranging from the dramatic...

Reform is required for social program rules that prevent the poor from saving in Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs), according to this study. The author says that encouraging asset accumulation, even in small amounts, is crucial in helping to lift...

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...

The Albanian Ndihma Ekonomike is one of the first poverty reduction programs launched in transitional economies. Its record has been judged positively during the recession period of the 1990s and negatively during the more recent growth phase. This paper reconsiders the program using a...

This paper introduces newly coded information describing province- and year-specific variation in work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance of welfare participation of at least 1.1 percentage points (9.2%...