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Benefits for Poor Children
Author(s) -
Papps Ivy
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb01036.x
Subject(s) - battle , argument (complex analysis) , state (computer science) , law and economics , political science , history , sociology , computer science , ancient history , medicine , algorithm
For years the intellectual battle between universalists and selectivists dominated the argument on state benefits. The academic case for selectivity, to concentrate help on the helpless, has been won and is now accepted by Dr David Owen and Mrs Margaret Thatcher alike. Here Dr Ivy Papps applies the analysis to child benefits.