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Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment.

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Title: Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment.
Authors: Kenworthy, Lane
Source: Social Forces. Mar99, Vol. 77 Issue 3, p1119-1139. 21p. 1 Graph.
Subjects: Poverty, Public welfare policy, Welfare state, Poor people, Government programs, Developed countries
Abstract: Most social scientists, policymakers, and citizens who support the welfare state do so in part because they believe social-welfare programs help to reduce the incidence of poverty. Yet a growing number of critics assert that such programs in fact fail to decrease poverty, because too small a share of transfers actually reaches the poor, or because such programs create a welfare/poverty trap, or because they weaken the economy. This study assesses the effects of social-welfare policy extensiveness on poverty rates across fifteen affluent industrialized nations over the period 1960-91, using both absolute and relative measures of poverty. The results strongly support the conventional view that social-welfare programs reduce poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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