Social Welfare Spending Measure

A Social Welfare Spending Measure is a government spending measure for social welfare programs.

• Context:
  • It can be normalized as a per Capita Social Welfare Spending Measure or a Social Welfare Spending to GDP Measure.
  • It can range from being a Government-funded Social Welfare Spending Measure to being a Private Organization-funded Social Welfare Spending Measure.
• Example(s):
  • U.S. Social Welfare Spending, Chinese Social Welfare Spending, ...
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Social Welfare Spending, ...
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Military Spending Measure.
• See: Social Welfare, Welfare State, Welfare.

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References

• https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SOCX_AGG

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_welfare_spending Retrieved:2017-12-29.
  • This page lists countries by spending on social welfare. Countries with the highest levels of spending are more likely to be considered welfare states.

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