welfare programme

collocation in English

meaningsofwelfareandprogramme

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welfare
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwel.feər/
us
/ˈwel.fer/
help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have ...
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programme
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ɡræm/
us
/ˈproʊ.ɡræm/
a broadcast on television ...
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(Definition ofwelfareandprogrammefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There was evidence that these funding bodies influenced in the formulation of social welfare programmes under the two major parties.
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They pressed for social welfare programmes backed by both the private and the public sector.
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Many of the most standard ordinary social welfare programmes assume some other form of mutuality than that embodied in workfare.
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He suggests that such recognition had to await the welfare analyses following from the 1931 census and welfare programmes developed in the decades thereafter.
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Defining health inequalities as health disadvantages aligns public health policy with other elements of the government'swelfareprogramme.
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Priorities for the familywelfareprogramme.
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Thewelfareprogrammeis looking at very remote and difficult areas.
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We are undertaking a systematic review of thewelfareprogramme.
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It has been a sort of socialwelfareprogrammein its own right.
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Perhaps we should return to the justification for our socialwelfareprogramme, which has been built up over that long period of time.
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There were improvements in the mining communities with the development of the socialwelfareprogramme.
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The socialwelfareprogrammehas been expanded greatly over the last few years.
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One peril of doing comparisons in only one policy field is that different welfare programmes are sometimes functional equivalents.
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The various welfare programmes are also likely to involve different pressure groups in civil society.
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The research to date suggests that this alarmist view of drastically diminishing welfare programmes or rising populist expectations needs to be substantially revised.
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Many other countries are facing difficulties maintaining their welfare programmes in a hostile intellectual and fiscal climate.
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It then examines the recently initiated and now burgeoning welfare programmes, with particular attention to health and social services for sick and frail older people.
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These measures adversely affected the welfare programmes of the country.
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