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

Publication type

Journal Article

Author

Publication date

December 15, 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

Volume: 26 , p.428 -441

DOI

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

ISSN

9589287

Subjects

#524021

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