Challenging Britain's benefits system

Stephen Brien

Public Policy Review, 2009, vol. 16, issue 3, 169-173

Abstract: The economic downturn has increased pressure on Britain's benefits system – a system already failing to deliver reductions in poverty or unemployment. New thinking is needed, acknowledging the economic incentives created by benefits and setting employment as a central goal for the welfare state, says Stephen Brien

Date: 2009
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