Welfare State

The welfare state is a form of government in which the state protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of the citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life. Sociologist T. H. Marshall described the modern welfare state as a distinctive combination of democracy, welfare, and capitalism.As a type of mixed economy, the welfare state funds the governmental institutions for health care and education along with direct benefits given to individual citizens. Early features of the welfare state, …

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NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 17 October 2024 English

I try to do my job of sorting out what's going on in the best way I can with my values and my knowledge and my research in topics which …

creating something like a sort of universal welfare state, which is unique. And I think that's a remarkable


CIS: Centre for Independent Studies · 16 October 2024 English

One of the demographic certainties about the generation ahead is that dif- ferentials in population growth will make for rapid shifts in the relative size of the world’s major regions. …

least, postpone the crisis of the existing welfare state, but it may do many more things for growth and


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 16 October 2024 English

This paper investigates public perceptions and support for policies aimed at integrating immigrant workers into domestic labor markets. Through large-scale surveys involving 6,300 respondents from Canada, Italy, and the United …

about adverse effects of immigration on the welfare state and slightly move preference for immigration


Chatham House · 16 October 2024 English

After two and a half years of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, there are now four main possible scenarios for its outcome: ‘Long war’ – An attritional conflict that tests …

in Britain in 1945, which led to the creation of the welfare state and nationalization of one-fifth of the economy


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 15 October 2024 English

Roxana Mînzatu became a Member of the European Parliament in July 2024. She belongs to the Social Democratic Party in Romania, which is affiliated with the Socialists and Democrats Group …

Social Protection and of the Welfare State in the EU call for welfare state modernisation and reform. In


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 11 October 2024 English

The American party system is in an unusual extended deadlock, with two minority parties, neither capable of sustaining a durable winning coalition. Both parties have plausible avenues to build a …

provided political support for the emerging welfare state, with its implicit social con- tract and greatly Congress and sup- port the expansion of the welfare state and robust public investment. This era, from These constituencies wanted more from the welfare state than steady economic growth, copious infrastruc- During the 1960s, these new demands on the welfare state came to a head. Americans’ concerns about their their fundamental commitment to the New Deal welfare state; instead, they grafted on support for all the


Cato Institute · 10 October 2024 English

If federal spending continues to rise, the US budget will increasingly resemble government budgets in Europe, where government spending dominates economic activity. High spending requires high taxes, which affect not …

currently headed down—is toward a European- style welfare state that requires significantly higher taxes on on all Americans. Funding a European-style welfare state would require a roughly 50 percent tax increase Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti, “The Welfare State and Competitiveness,” American Economic Review


CeSPI: Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale · 10 October 2024 Italian

Questa prassi rinforza una concezione di perdurabilità dello stato emergenziale e di crisi in Libano e comporta l’adozione, da parte delle istituzioni locali, di un’agenda politica e di sviluppo di …

sua volta dovuto al particolare sistema di welfare state vigente in Libano: l’erogazione del welfare


ESRI: Economic and Social Research Institute · 8 October 2024 English

https://doi.org/10.26504/rs193

all or multiple years (Maître et al., 2021). Welfare state research suggests that lone parenthood is among risks’ inadequately covered by traditional welfare state systems (Taylor-Gooby, 2004). These risks are Family change, employment transitions and the welfare state: household income dynamics in the United States welfare: the transformation of the European welfare state, Oxford: Oxford University Press Thornton, M women in the European Union: the impact of welfare state arrangements, European Journal of Population


ODI: Overseas Development Institute · 8 October 2024 English

The views presented in the report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the perspectives either of their respective organisations or of the School Meals Coalition and …

stage. foundations for the creation of the welfare state. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals include


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