PHA-Exchange> Equity, efficiency and ideology

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 What Do You Mean? Conceptual Clarity in Social Policy.

 Alessandro Magnoli, > Inter American Development Bank Report  ISBN:
1-931003-18-1, 2002
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 Website: http://www.iadb.org/exr/pub/pages/book.asp?id=134

 ".............The objective of this study is to demonstrate that different
> ideologies lead to different concepts of efficiency and equity, which in
turn influence the policy design and consequently the results of social
service delivery.
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> Efficiency and equity are social priorities and, at the same time, they
are the cornerstones on which to build the redefined welfare state.
Achieving  social equity is as important a goal as achieving economic
efficiency, but there is confusion regarding these concepts and their
dynamic
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