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Declining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: The Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownership
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018)Social assistance has become prominent in combating poverty in developing countries and has also contributed to the popularity and election success of governments implementing it. In this paper I employ household surveys and investigate the effect of social assistance on poverty and income inequality in Turkey. I also review the recent literature on poverty as well as different components of social protection spending: education health pensions and housing. In the empirical analysis I show that ...