Welfare financing

Linda Toolsema-Veldman and M.A. Allers
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M.A. Allers: Groningen University

No 12004-EEF, Research Report from University of Groningen, Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisations and Management)

Abstract: Welfare is often administered locally, but financed through grants from the central government. This raises the question how the central government can prevent local governments from spending more than necessary. Block grants are more efficient than matching grants, because the latter reduce the local governments

Date: 2012
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