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Title: What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Author(s): Dennis J. Snower

Publication Date: November 1994

Keyword(s): Education, Free Enterprise, Health, Inequality, Poverty, Unemployment and Welfare State

Programme Area(s): Human Resources

Abstract: The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market failures, government failures, and implementation costs. Two proposals for reform of the Welfare State are outlined.

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Snower, D. 1994. 'What is the Domain of the Welfare State?'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1018