The
Welfare state is one in which the
government looks after individual
citizens in need through the provision of
social welfare programmes. Examples of early welfare-states in the modern world are the
Sweden and
New Zealand of the 1930s. Changed attitudes in reaction to the
great depression were instrumental in the move to the welfare state in many countries, harbinging new times where "cradle to grave" services became a reality in contrast to the harsh mass-
poverty of the depression.
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