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Using social benefits to combat poverty and social exclusion : opportunities and problems from a comparative perspective, European synthesis report = Utiliser des aides sociales pour combattre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale : examen comparatif des opportunités et des problèmes / Matti Heikkilä and Susan Kuivalainen.

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Using social benefits to combat poverty and social exclusion : opportunities and problems from a comparative perspective, European synthesis report = Utiliser des aides sociales pour combattre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale : examen comparatif des opportunités et des problèmes / Matti Heikkilä and Susan Kuivalainen.
Author
Heikkilä, Matti
Publication
Strasbourg : Council of Europe, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Kuivalainen, Susan
  • Council of Europe
Description
103, 107 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This volume explores the nature and scope of the problem of poverty, examines the political responses to poverty (examples of different countries); and investigates the existence and use of various definitions and thresholds applied to poverty in policy making . It also examines the variations within income transfers, i.e. social benefits designed to prevent or alleviate poverty and material hardship and explores the effectiveness of benefit schemes in reducing poverty.--Publisher's description.
Series Statement
Trends in social cohesion = Tendances de la cohésion sociale ; no. 3
Uniform Title
Trends in social cohesion no. 3.
Alternative Title
  • Utiliser des aides sociales pour combattre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale : examen comparatif des opportunités et des problèmes
  • Utiliser des aides sociales pour combattre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale : examen comparatif des opportunités et des problèmes
Subject
  • Poverty > Europe
  • Public welfare > Europe
  • Poverty
  • Public welfare
Note
  • "September 2002"--P. [2].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-103, 103-107).
Language (note)
  • English and French; printed tête-bêche.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
General policy context -- Existence and use of poverty thresholds -- Social benefits for combating poverty -- Testing the schemes -- Summary and conclusions.
ISBN
9287149372
OCLC
  • 51835524
  • SCSB-10906430
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library