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Title:

Targeting social benefits : international perspectives & trends / edited by Neil Gilbert.

Publisher:

Transaction Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xx, 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Public welfare.--Case studies.
Welfare state.--Case studies.
Social policy.--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Gilbert, Neil, 1940-
International Social Security Association.

Notes:

"In cooperation with the International Social Security Association." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The New Zealand model: targeting in an income-tested system / Ross Mackay -- Targeting strategies in the Netherlands: demand management and cost constraint / Piet K. Keizer -- Targeting social provisions in Britain: who benefits from allocation formulae? / Ken Judge -- Retrenchment and progressive targeting: the Israeli experience / Abraham Doron -- Targeting social welfare in the United States: personal responsibility, private behavior, and public benefits / Jill Duerr Berrick -- Targeting welfare in a "soft" state: Italy's winding road to selectivity / Maurizio Ferrera -- From a generous to a stingy welfare state? Sweden's approach to targeting / Sven Hort -- Renegotiating social allocations: choices and issues / Neil Gilbert.

Series:

International social security ; v. 1

ISBN:

9780765806253 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0765806258 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42733906

LCCN:

99055950

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)