Journal Article

Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison

Authors

Publication date

Dec 2016

Summary

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.

Published in

Journal of European Social Policy

Volume and page numbers

26 , 428 -441

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928716664296

ISSN

16

Subjects

Households, Poverty, Welfare Benefits, and Social Policy

Links

University of Essex, Albert Sloman Library Periodicals *restricted to University of Essex registered users* - http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1656027~S5

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