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Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century (vol. 1)

Peter H. Lindert · Cambridge University Press · 2004

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Peter H. Lindert
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DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511510717
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2026-09-01

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DisputedKorpi and Palme (1998) found that welfare states with encompassing, earnings-related programmes reduced poverty and inequality more than those that targeted benefits on the poor, which they called the paradox of redistribution.