1. war on poverty
Consequently, the government introduced a plethora of social policy reforms designed to "make work pay" for individuals who had languished on benefits for too long. The primary policy introduced to change work incentives was the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC), but other important policies such as the National Minimum Wage, the various New Deals, reforms to the National Insurance system, the lower rate of Income Tax and a National Childcare Strategy were all designed as part of a package of welfare to work policies. ... The drawback with this approach it that it may be difficult both poli...
(Adams .D 1988) Bias of the policy environment against the Non-Farm Rural Sector. In most developing countries, the generally small-scale non-farm sector in rural areas faces a general policy environment that is biased against it. ... Ignorance about institutional support- Projects, instead of policies, has been the primary tools to encourage development of rural small-scale enterprise. The biggest problem with such support is the ignorance of people about such policies. ... It is thus difficult to provide broad policy prescriptions for promoting the non-farm employment as a whole, or even ...