welfare state

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Foreign economists want Beijing to build a bigger welfare state to encourage more household spending.

From The Wall Street Journal

After Khomeini’s historic compromise and subsequent death, Iran entered the 1990s under Khamenei buoyed by economic growth, postwar reconstruction and the building of a welfare state with high levels of education and healthcare.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Let us continue united, advancing toward economic stability, social justice, and the welfare state we deserve to achieve!”

From The Wall Street Journal

It was only in the 1990s that Germany began to let its defense industry shrivel again as it diverted spending toward the welfare state.

From The Wall Street Journal

Early on Monday, his government reached a budget agreement which he said was the only way to "guarantee the sustainability" of Belgium's welfare state.

From BBC