Governmental Services and Social Welfare

Governmental Quality and Welfare

In the last decade, caseloads in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Existing studies fail to explain the changes well. Also, they do not reveal the policies behind the changes, nor the important role of governmental quality in shaping welfare reform. In this study, I use cross-sectional models based on states, measure welfare reform policies directly using program data, and rela...

The Relations of Social Security and Social Welfare Services

THE PAST few years have seen a growing interest, iu countries at, varyiiig stages of economic and social developmeut, in the appropriate development and organization of social welfare services. Coucepts aud definit,ious as well as methods of providing social services vary greatly, but it seems evident that industrialization aud urbauizat,ion have created certain commuuit,y ueeds to which people...

The Nordic Model: Monitoring Social Welfare and Health Care Services

This paper and our presentation at the ISI meeting in Helsinki have three major themes: Presentation of the Nordic model for organising and monitoring social welfare and health care services and the Nordic co-operation (Chapters 1-3), Demonstration of the Nordic model of information steering and easy availability of high quality data (Chapter 4), and Discussion about the future trends in dissem...

The Limitations of NGOs: a preliminary study of non-governmental social welfare organisations in China

Department of Social Services Review of Australia’s Welfare System

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is the national umbrella body for refugees, asylum seekers and the organisations and individuals who work with them, representing over 190 organisations and almost 900 individual members. RCOA promotes the adoption of humane, lawful and constructive policies by governments and communities in Australia and internationally towards refugees, asylum seekers a...