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| Social protection in Greece: a brief glimpse of a welfare state | | Author(s) | Maria Petmesidou |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 30, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 324-347 |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Social security benefits ; Health services ; Social policy ; Greece. |
| Annotation | As with other peripheral countries of Europe, Greece has lagged behind in developing a welfare system, even though the country experienced fast economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s. An expansion of social protection occurred in the early 1980s, as a consequence of significant changes after the restoration of political democracy in 1974. The consequences of low economic growth, a fiscal crisis, increasing international competition, significant demographic changes, and a fragile social consensus in the 1990s has delayed further development of social protection. Thus, the national health care system has hardly succeeded in establishing universal coverage, the social insurance system has remained highly fragmented, while policies for tackling unemployment, hardship and poverty have been rudimentary. This paper focuses on factors which have hindered the development of citizenship; examines the main characteristics of the Greek model of social protection by looking at policy reforms and measures introduced in the 1980s and 1990s; and concludes with the challenges now being faced by the social protection system. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980514225 A |
| Classmark | TY: JH: L: TM2: 76X |
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