Please click here to view this information or follow the links in the more user-friendly design of the data base, allowing for direct access to related information. Although highly-developed welfare states in the industrialised world spend a large share of their income on social security, poverty and social exclusion have not been eradicated. The persistence of income poverty in industrialised welfare states casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of social security schemes in alleviating poverty.
Special emphasis is placed on minimum income schemes.
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