Sri Lanka's improved welfare system, Aswesuma, was better at targeting poverty than previous schemes, but led to a decline in ...

Outcomes of cash transfers include improvements in quality of life, measured by spending patterns, economic ecosystem ...

It is long past time to place the Israeli citizen – the worker, the parent, the student, the small business owner – at the ...

Pareto efficiency, named after the Italian economist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), is a major pillar of welfare economics. Neoclassical economics, alongside the theoretical ...

Ultimately, welfare conditionality is not a beneficial approach to welfare, as it imposes further burdensome barriers to receiving essential services, reinforces harmful stereotypes, naively relies on ...

Alternative measures of economic welfare suggest the economy may have recovered more slowly from the pandemic than traditional measures imply, and may even have been stagnant since 2017.

Using a regression discontinuity design and administrative data, we study a Danish policy that cut welfare benefits for refugees, increasing crime among affected individuals. Linking refugees to ...

In the new study, researchers took a new look at existing data on the social and economic drivers of depression ... On the flip side, cuts to social welfare such as unemployment benefits, and ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Strategic borrowing to fund defense spending can enhance economic welfare by spreading costs over time and reducing the need for immediate tax increases ...

Welfare cuts will hit the most deprived areas and the north of England hardest, with long term health and economic harms, write Clare Bambra and colleagues In her Spring Statement in March 2025, the ...

“There is nothing Labour about accepting the cost of this economic – but above all ... She acknowledged that “welfare reform is never easy and it is rarely popular, perhaps especially ...