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Targeted Social Assistance in the Economic Development Periods

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  • Georgi Shopov

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The paper presents the results of a systematic analysis of four targeted social assistance programs, carried out for the first time in a Bulgarian scientific research. The analysis covers the key characteristics of the programs – objectives, target groups, guaranteed rights, approach to the way of setting benefit amount, access criteria to targeted benefits, financing methods, major results achieved in the different economic development periods after the changes of 1990. The author has synthesized scientific and applied research findings and evaluations of development and implementation of policies on targeted social assistance in different macroeconomic environment as part of the modernization of social assistance during the period 1990-2010.

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  • Georgi Shopov, 2013. "Targeted Social Assistance in the Economic Development Periods," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 1, pages 72-107.
    • Handle: RePEc:bas:econst:y:2013:i:1:p:72-107
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    JEL classification:

    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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