scholarly journals Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004: An Impact Evaluation

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Verme
Keyword(s):  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Assistance

scholarly journals Indonesia Poverty Reduction Strategies: Shifting policies to promote employment in the poorest four deciles

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Ardi Adji ◽  
Sri Hartini Rachmad
Keyword(s):  
Employment Status ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Working Status ◽  
Policy Shifts

This paper observes the working status and conditions of people who fall into the poorest four deciles in Indonesia. The research aims to provoke policy shifts in the drive to accelerate poverty reduction in Indonesia, taking a longer view of people being more employable and less dependent; also identifying the dominant factors preventing people from moving out of poverty and improving their life quality. By comparing elements of gender, age, education and health against employment status and opportunities. Simultaneously social assistance and protection programs are evaluated in relation to their stated target groups to determine their suitability and their impact.

PELAYANAN PUSAT KESEJAHTERAAN SOSIAL (PUSKESOS) DALAM PENANGGULANGAN KEMISKINAN (Studi di Kelurahan Abeli Dalam Kecamatan Puuwatu Kota Kendari)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Jamaluddin Jamaluddin ◽  
Bahtiar Bahtiar ◽  
Sarmadan Sarmadan
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Implementation Team ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Village Government ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Welfare And Poverty ◽  
The Right

This study aims to determine the services of social welfare centers (Puskesos) in poverty reduction in Abeli Dalam Village, Puuwatu District, Kendari City. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. The data collection technique was carried out by means of observation, interviews, and documentation with 13 research informants. 5 people from the implementation team of the social welfare center (Puskesos), and 8 additional informants, 1 TKSK and 7 community members who are beneficiaries of Puskesmas services in Abeli Dalam Village, Puuwatu District, Kendari CityThe results showed that social welfare center services (Puskesos) are located in Abeli Dalam Village government by providing social welfare center services in the program including: Healthy Idonesia Card (KIS), Family Hope Program (PKH), Non-Tunia Food Assistance (BPNT), and Cash Social Assistance (BST). which is carried out by Puskesmas to the poor, namely: 1) making changes in the form of activities, these activities are in the form of socialization. 2) assist in overcoming problems, by providing quality service assistance to poor individuals / families / households must have clear, straightforward, easy to understand and implement procedures. These activities include; receiving complaints, checking the status of potential beneficiaries with data validation and verification processes, complaint handling services according to program needs, in this case the KIS, PKH, BPNT, BST programs, and handling referrals. With 700 KIS recipients, 77 PKH family heads, 137 BPNT family heads, and 6 BST family heads. The number of service recipients for the poor was 174 households out of 202 households. These are found in Puskesmas services as well as the benefits of puskesmas services for the community that can have a good impact on community welfare and poverty reduction, and contribute to the fulfillment of the right to access health services, education, basic food assistance, and cash social assistance can be achieved

scholarly journals Forms of social assistance in the social protection system and their role in poverty reduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 158 (3-4(2)) ◽  
pp. 92-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Abakumenko ◽  
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Larisa Kovalenko ◽  
Olena Tovstizhenko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Protection System ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Improving poverty reduction in Europe: What works best where?

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysa Leventi ◽  
Holly Sutherland ◽  
Iva Valentinova Tasseva
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
Child Benefits ◽  
What Works ◽  
Effective Instrument

This article examines how income poverty is affected by changes to the scale of tax-benefit policies and which are the most cost-effective policies in reducing poverty or limiting its increase in seven diverse EU countries. We do that by measuring the implications of increasing/reducing the scale of each policy instrument, using microsimulation methods while holding constant the policy design and national context. We consider commonly applied policy instruments with a direct effect on household income: child benefits, social assistance, income tax lower thresholds and a benchmark case of rescaling the whole tax-benefit system. We find that the assessment of the most cost-effective instrument may depend on the measure of poverty used and the direction and scale of the change. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the options that reduce poverty most cost-effectively in most countries are increasing child benefits and social assistance, while reducing the former is a particularly poverty-increasing way of making budgetary cuts.

scholarly journals Child Poverty, Child Maintenance and Interactions with Social Assistance Benefits Among Lone Parent Families: a Comparative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIA HAKOVIRTA ◽  
CHRISTINE SKINNER ◽  
HEIKKI HIILAMO ◽  
MERITA JOKELA
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Lone Parent ◽  
Lone Parents ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Child Maintenance

AbstractIn many developed countries lone parent families face high rates of child poverty. Among those lone parents who do get child maintenance there is a hidden problem. States may retain all, or a proportion, of the maintenance that is paid in order to offset other fiscal costs. Thus, the potential of child maintenance to alleviate poverty among lone parent families may not be fully realized, especially if the families are also in receipt of social assistance benefits. This paper provides an original comparative analysis exploring the effectiveness of child maintenance to reduce child poverty among lone parent families in receipt of social assistance. It addresses the question of whether effectiveness is compromised once interaction effects (such as the operation of a child maintenance disregard) are taken into account in four countries Australia, Finland, Germany and the UK using the LIS dataset (2013). It raises important policy considerations and provides evidence to show that if policy makers are serious about reducing child poverty, they must understand how hidden mechanisms within interactions between child maintenance and social security systems can work as effective cost recovery tools for the state, but have no poverty reduction impact.

Social assistance and poverty reduction in China

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-194
Author(s):  
Yongsheng Mi ◽  
Translated by Hok‐Bun Ku
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Assistance

scholarly journals Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: A pre-transfer post-transfer comparison

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 428-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Avram
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Eastern European Countries

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.

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