THE THEORETICAL APPROACH TO THE INCOME SUPPORT PROPOSALS FOR POVERTY STRUGGLE Cover Image

YOKSULLUKLA MÜCADELEDE GELİR DESTEĞİ ÖNERİLERİNE KURAMSAL BİR YAKLAŞIM
THE THEORETICAL APPROACH TO THE INCOME SUPPORT PROPOSALS FOR POVERTY STRUGGLE

Author(s): Veli Kargi, Hilmiye Yasemin Özuğurlu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences
Published by: Rating Academy
Keywords: Welfare State; poverty; social protection systems; income support programs; redistribution;

Summary/Abstract: In recent years classical political democracy has been replaced by economic and social democracy. In this age’s democracy refer to the different instruments to reduce the economic and social inequality and provide social justice. Government implements income redistribution by the way of public expenditures and public revenues. The most effective tool for this propose is tax policy. Although, essential role of the taxes is seemed as the finance of public spends, it is a reality to use the taxes for social aims. The use of taxes as a tool to change the distribution of the income and wealth serve for the management of economic and social politics. In addition to tax-based income support proposals, income support programs based on direct income transfers, such as basic income programmes, are also an extremely important social protection tool in the context of welfare state approaches. One of the most important requirements of being a welfare state is to provide minimum income guarantee to people by means of public expenditure, tax system and social protection systems. Today, the main reason for the intervention of the state with various means towards fair distribution of income is struggle with poverty. From this point of view, this study contains the theoretical evaluation of income support programs that can be used in combating poverty.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: special
  • Page Range: 315-328
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Turkish