International Comparative Studies on Comprehensive Provision of Social Protection ("Bunch of Social Policies") at the Local Level

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Many countries implement the anti-poverty policies with the use of various kinds of resources provided by a number of organization such as governmental institutions and private non-profit/profit organizations. This study aimed to examine the signs of emerging mechanism for providing people with the resources through well-combined policies (good "bunch of social policies") in the countries. The study led to two conclusions as follows. (1) More or less, people in the countries tend to consider well-combined anti-poverty policies as indispensable since the globalization has caused the serious level of income disparity and poverty. (2) In the countries, the signs of emerging "bunch of anti-poverty policies" are different that is attributed to the complex factors such as the influence of social (civil) organization, the scale of governmental sector and the degree of administrative decentralization of social policies.