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Poverty alleviation is certainly the most emblematic of European Union ambitions in the field of social policy – encompassing in a visible and politically salient way the cumulative end effect of many separate interventions in social and economic policy. The question posed in this paper is, therefore: Does the past play a role in the 50+ poverty we see today?
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Tinios, P., Lyberaki, A., Georgiadis, T. (2011). Explaining Persistent Poverty in SHARE: Does the Past Play a Role?. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Hank, K., Schröder, M. (eds) The Individual and the Welfare State. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17472-8_2
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