Targeted Social Assistance in the Economic Development Periods

Georgi Shopov ()

Economic Studies journal, 2013, issue 1, 72-107

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: H41 H53 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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