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100	1		_aFERGE, Zsuzsa _93434
245	1	0	_aSocial security in Hungary : _ba balance sheet after twelve years
260			_c2002
520	3		_aThe social and political transformation in Hungary contributed to the development of a democratic political system and to the establishment of the rule of law and a market economy, the process was accompanied by a series of economic and social problems. The paper first reviews the social policy orientation of the three free consecutive governments elected since the transition. None of them has had a clear political profile: they have constituted mixed and unclear welfare regimes. None of them has sketched a clear welfare policy except perhaps the current government. In its case central redistributionn is consistently biased in favour of the middle and upper strata at the expense of the poor. Instead of a consensual plan defining priorities, decisions and reforms in the last ten years have been motivated by political interests, at hoc ideas, and authoritarian rulings. The paper next shows what reform meant in the case of the different instruments and various fields of social policy, namely unemployment, health, pensions, family benefits and social assistance. It concludes that while both the inherited and the newly created systems had contributed to alleviate the shocks of the transition, yet there never was enough political will to give sufficient or adequate help to those needing it. As a consequence of the "reforms" public expenditures have been significantly reduced. The welfare gap between East and West has thereby grown. The consequence is that the country has become gravely divided, and that poverty is greater and deeper than it might have been under a different set of policies
650		4	_aWelfare Policy _917145
650		4	_aSocial Security _916515
651		4	_aHungary _916385
700	1		_aTAUSZ, Katalin _917146
773	0	8	_tSocial Policy & Administration _g36, 2, p. 176-199 _d, 2002 _w
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998			_a20021108 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060609 _b1639^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c8322 _d8322
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