Benefits for Poor Children
In: Economic affairs: journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 21-23
ISSN: 1468-0270
For years the intellectual battle between universalists and selectivists dominated the argument on state benefits. The academic case for selectivity, to concentrate help on the helpless, has been won and is now accepted by Dr David Owen and Mrs Margaret Thatcher alike. Here Dr Ivy Papps applies the analysis to child benefits.