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social assistance  

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  • SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IS a term used widely in En-glish-speaking countries, Scandinavia, and elsewhere, to mean public financial aid given on the basis of need. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) International Social Assistance Study, undertaken in 1994 at the University of York in England, notes: “The term social assistance does not have a fixed or universal meaning. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Social Assistance]

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