Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations (some color), charts, graphs, tables |
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Online access: World Bank World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
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Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The role of last-resort income support in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region -- Overview of key arrangements : institutional actors, regulations, and program financing -- Eligibility -- Benefit levels and conditions : balancing designs to manage disincentives to work -- Control and accountability in lRIS programs -- Administrative costs -- Summary and conclusions |
Summary |
This study reviews the role and workings, with their strengths and weaknesses of last-resort income support (LRIS) programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It draws on a combination of household survey and administrative data for a large group of countries and detailed case studies for a smaller number of countries that span the spectrum of the income range in the region. It thus combines the value of wide, comparable multi-country work with that of in-depth, country-specific probing on key themes. The experiences of LRIS programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have demonstrated the te |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Income maintenance programs -- Asia, Central
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Income maintenance programs -- Europe, Eastern
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Public welfare -- Europe, Eastern
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Public welfare -- Asia, Central
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Poor -- Europe, Eastern
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Poor -- Asia, Central
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Income maintenance programs
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Poor
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Public welfare
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Central Asia
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Eastern Europe
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Tesliuc, Emil, author
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Naylor, Debra, cover designer
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ISBN |
9781464802386 |
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1464802386 |
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1464802378 |
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9781464802379 |
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