Collected Papers on Poverty Issues. Volume 4: International Poverty and Social Welfare Policies: A Studey of Seven Counties.

The final and fourth volume in a collection of papers on poverty issues, this document deals with studies of poverty and social welfare programs in five Western European countries, Canada, and Japan. Eight sections constitute the document: some cross-national characteristics of poverty; poverty and antipoverty in Britain (characteristics of poverty, government policies and programs); poverty in Canada (characteristics of poverty, government policies and programs, the future); social insurance programs in Germany (overview, social budget, financing, programs, foreign workers, poverty); social welfare in France (social security, legal minimum wage, unemployment and employment policy, old age insurance, pensions, family allowances, medical allowances); Japan (pension insurance programs, family allowance, children, aged, education, housing, and others); social welfare program of the Netherlands (unemployment, wage differences, social insurance, sheltered workshops, and others); and social welfare programs in Sweden (social welfare budget, social insurance programs, health, social assistance, and others). (Author/AM)