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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