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Direct linkBrady, David – Social Forces, 2005
This study investigates the relationship between the welfare state and poverty with multiple measures of the welfare state and poverty in an unbalanced panel of 18 Western nations from 1967 to 1997. While addressing the limitations of past research, the analysis shows that social security transfers and public health spending significantly reduce…
Descriptors: Public Health, Poverty, Welfare Recipients, Public Policy
Download full textGrosh, Margaret E. – 1990
This study traces public sector expenditures for nine Latin American countries in the 1980s in order to determine how social services and social well-being fared during the economic stringencies of the decade. The countries included are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, and Venezuela. The…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Developing Nations, Economics, Elementary Secondary Education
