Greece: Reform of Social Welfare Programmes [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
OECD StaffContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2013.
This review provides an analytical perspective of the current situation, including the construction of a database, in order to help the Greek government define reforms to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and fairness of selected social programmes. The review identifies gaps and overlaps in social protection, and highlights areas where there is room for significant efficiency gains, in order to support informed and concrete decisions by the Greek government on where budgetary savings can most appropriately be made, taking into account the balance between societal groups and the need to maintain social cohesion.
Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Note to readers -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Key findings -- Executive summary -- Economic, social and systemic context of social welfare reforms in Greece -- The current Greek benefit system -- Towards more effective benefit system design in Greece -- Towards more effective system governance in Greece -- Reader's guide -- Update of key recent developments in social welfare reforms in Greece -- Overview of social welfare and related reforms in Greece in the last 20 years -- Cost-benefit analysis of proposed reforms to the Greek social welfare system -- Key features of the OECD Database on Social Programmes in Greece -- Government expenditure in Greece in 2010 -- Design and implementation of means testing for social protection -- Glossary.
This review provides an analytical perspective of the current situation, including the construction of a database, in order to help the Greek government define reforms to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and fairness of selected social programmes. The review identifies gaps and overlaps in social protection, and highlights areas where there is room for significant efficiency gains, in order to support informed and concrete decisions by the Greek government on where budgetary savings can most appropriately be made, taking into account the balance between societal groups and the need to maintain social cohesion.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Social Issues/Migration/Health
Governance